CVE-2006-5116: phpMyAdmin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin: version 2.8.0.1 only; version 2.8.0.2 only; version 2.8.0.3 only; version 2.8.1 only; version 2.8.1_dev only; version 2.8.3 only; …

Published 2006-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.