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CVE-2018-12581

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-12581 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting phpMyAdmin versions prior to 4.8.2. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious database name, which then triggers an XSS attack when referenced within the Designer feature. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) requires user interaction and has low impacts on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0182 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpmyadmin/phpmyadminFixed in: 4.8.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-vxj6-pm6r-23hqmedium

phpMyAdmin XSS Vulnerability

May 14, 2022

References

phpmyadmin.net / security/PMASA-2018-3
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/104530
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1041187
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry