CVE-2008-4096: phpMyAdmin

High severity, CVSS 8.5. EPSS: 11.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libraries/database_interface.lib.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a request to server_databases.php with a sort_by parameter containing PHP sequences, which are processed by create_function.

Affected products

• phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin: up to and including 2.11.9; 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 2008-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.