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CVE-2020-26935

77
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-26935 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability in phpMyAdmin versions before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3, affecting products like Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious SQL queries through the search feature. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, Nuclei templates exist for this vulnerability, indicating public exploit code availability, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.9.0, < 4.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
67.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2020-26935 · Jan 21, 2026
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6708 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpmyadmin/phpmyadminFixed in: 4.9.6
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpmyadmin/phpmyadminFixed in: 5.0.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-7ff4-cv53-4cjqcritical

phpMyAdmin SQL injection vulnerability

May 24, 2022

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00027.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00005.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
advisory.checkmarx.net / advisory/CX-2020-4281
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00024.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FHST4E5IJG7IKZTTW3R6MEZPVHJZ472K
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXK37YEHSDYCIPQSYEMN2OFTP2ZLM7DO
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TNLGHVDNAEZEGRTUESSSQFM7MZTHIDQ5
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202101-35
Third Party Advisory
phpmyadmin.net / security/PMASA-2020-6
PatchVendor Advisory