CVE-2008-3457: phpMyAdmin

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in setup.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted setup arguments. NOTE: this issue can only be exploited in limited scenarios in which the attacker must be able to modify config/config.inc.php.

Affected products

• phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin: up to and including 2.11.7.0; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; …

Published 2008-08-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.