CVE-2006-5116
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin before 2.9.1-rc1 allow remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as another user by (1) directly setting a token in the URL though dynamic variable evaluation and (2) unsetting arbitrary variables via the _REQUEST array, related to (a) libraries/common.lib.php, (b) session.inc.php, and (c) url_generating.lib.php. NOTE: the PHP unset function vector is covered by CVE-2006-3017.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 2.2% (83th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5101)
- Published
- October 3, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5101 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
References
- http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-October/001067.html
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html
- http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.9.1-rc1.tar.gz?download(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22126(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22781
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23086
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1677
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1207
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_072006.130.html
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447491/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20253(Patch)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29301
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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