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CVE-2020-26935

phpMyAdmin SQL injection vulnerability

9.8 CriticalFix available

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

63.7%Up 55.0 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 9.8

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Record
CVE-2020-26935
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
7.5 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-89
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Record
CVE-2020-26935
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-2982 No score

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Record
EUVD-2022-2982
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-7ff4-cv53-4cjq 9.8

phpMyAdmin SQL injection vulnerability

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Record
GHSA-7ff4-cv53-4cjq
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-89
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 9.8

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Record
CVE-2020-26935
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2020-26935 9.8

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26935
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVGHSA-7ff4-cv53-4cjq 9.8

phpMyAdmin SQL injection vulnerability

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Record
GHSA-7ff4-cv53-4cjq
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-89
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2020-26935 9.8

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2020-26935
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBIT-phpmyadmin-2020-26935 No score

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Record
BIT-phpmyadmin-2020-26935
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2020-0383 No score

Updated phpmyadmin packages fix security vulnerabilities

A vulnerability was discovered where an attacker can cause an XSS attack through the transformation feature. If an attacker sends a crafted link to the victim with the malicious JavaScript, when the victim clicks on the link, the JavaScript will run and complete the instructions made by the attacker. (CVE-2020-26934)

An SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query. (CVE-2020-26935)

Record
MGASA-2020-0383
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2020:1675-1 No score

Security update for phpMyAdmin

This update for phpMyAdmin fixes the following issues:

  • phpMyAdmin was updated to 4.9.6
    • CVE-2020-26934: Fixed an XSS relating to the transformation feature (boo#1177561).
    • CVE-2020-26935: Fixed an SQL injection in SearchController (boo#1177562).
Record
openSUSE-SU-2020:1675-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2020:1806-1 No score

Security update for phpMyAdmin

This update for phpMyAdmin fixes the following issues:

phpMyAdmin was updated to 4.9.7 (boo#1177842):

  • Fix two factor authentication that was broken in 4.9.6
  • Fix incompatibilities with older PHP versions

Update to 4.9.6:

  • Fixed XSS relating to the transformation feature (boo#1177561 CVE-2020-26934, PMASA-2020-5)
  • Fixed SQL injection vulnerability in SearchController (boo#1177562 CVE-2020-26935, PMASA-2020-6)

Update to 4.9.5:

This is a security release containing several bug fixes.

  • CVE-2020-10804: SQL injection vulnerability in the user accounts page, particularly when changing a password (boo#1167335, PMASA-2020-2)
  • CVE-2020-10802: SQL injection vulnerability relating to the search feature (boo#1167336, PMASA-2020-3)
  • CVE-2020-10803: SQL injection and XSS having to do with displaying results (boo#1167337, PMASA-2020-4)
  • Removing of the 'options' field for the external transformation.
Record
openSUSE-SU-2020:1806-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1 No score

phpMyAdmin-5.1.1-1.2 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the phpMyAdmin-5.1.1-1.2 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4639-1 No score

phpmyadmin vulnerabilities

It was discovered that there was a bug in the way phpMyAdmin handles the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage tables. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to cause phpmyAdmin to leak sensitive files. (CVE-2018-19968)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled user input. An attacker could possibly use this for an XSS attack. (CVE-2018-19970)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin mishandled certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via a crafted URL. (CVE-2018-7260)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to sanitize certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted database name. (CVE-2019-11768)

It was discovered that phpmyadmin incorrectly handled some requests. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a CSRF attack. (CVE-2019-12616)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to sanitize certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted username. (CVE-2019-6798, CVE-2020-10804, CVE-2020-5504)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin would allow sensitive files to be leaked if certain configuration options were set. An attacker could use this vulnerability to access confidential information. (CVE-2019-6799)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to sanitize certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted database or table name. (CVE-2020-10802)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin did not properly handle data from the database when displaying it. If an attacker were to insert specially- crafted data into certain database tables, the attacker could execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. (CVE-2020-10803)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin was vulnerable to an XSS attack. If a victim were to click on a crafted link, an attacker could run malicious JavaScript on the victim's system. (CVE-2020-26934)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin did not properly handler certain SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this vulnerability to inject malicious SQL into a query. (CVE-2020-26935)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin did not properly sanitize certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to possibly execute an HTML injection or a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. (CVE-2019-19617)

Record
USN-4639-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4843-1 No score

phpmyadmin vulnerabilities

Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly managed input in the form of passwords. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2014-9218)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input in the form of database names in the PHP Array export feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to run arbitrary PHP commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6609)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6619)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyadmin failed to properly sanitize input. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6630)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass AllowRoot restrictions and deny rules for usernames. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9849)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin would allow sensitive information to be leaked when the argument separator in a URL was not the default & value. An attacker could use this vulnerability to obtain the CSRF token of a user. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9866)

Isaac Bennetch discovered that phpMyAdmin was incorrectly restricting user access due to the behavior of the substr function on some PHP versions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass login restrictions established for users that have no password set. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-18264)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input in the form of parameters sent during a table editing operation. An attacker could use this vulnerability to trigger an endless recursion and cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000014)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input used to generate a web page. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to execute CSS injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000015)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via a crafted URL. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-7260)

It was discovered phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled database names. An attacker could possibly use this to trigger a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-12581)

Daniel Le Gall discovered that phpMyAdmin would expose sensitive information to unauthorized actors due to an error in its transformation feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to leak the contents of a local file. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19968)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled user input. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19970)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted database name. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-11768)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled some requests. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross…

Record
USN-4843-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Packagist
4.9.0 up to 4.9.6
4.9.6
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Packagist
5.0.0 up to 5.0.3
5.0.3
phpmyadmin
Bitnami
4.9.0 up to 4.9.6, 5.0.0 up to 5.0.3
4.9.65.0.3
phpmyadmin
Debian:12
before 4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
phpmyadmin
Debian:13
before 4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
phpmyadmin
Debian:14
before 4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
phpmyadmin
Debian:9
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 4:4.6.6-4+deb9u2, plus listed versions
4:4.6.6-44:4.6.6-4+deb9u1
4:4.6.6-4+deb9u2
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Packagist
4.9.0 up to 4.9.6, plus listed versions
4.9.0.14.9.14.9.24.9.34.9.44.9.5
4.9.6
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Packagist
5.0.0 up to 5.0.3, plus listed versions
5.0.0.15.0.15.0.2
5.0.3
phpmyadmin
Mageia:7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.9.6-1.mga7
4.9.6-1.mga7
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
before 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5, plus listed versions
4:4.6.6-5
4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
before 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1, plus listed versions
4:4.9.1+dfsg1-24:4.9.2+dfsg1-14:4.9.5+dfsg1-1ubuntu14:4.9.5+dfsg1-2
4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5, plus listed versions
4:4.6.6-5
4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4, plus listed versions
4:4.0.6-14:4.0.8-14:4.0.9-14:4.0.10-14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm24:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6, plus listed versions
4:4.4.13.1-14:4.5.0.2-24:4.5.1-14:4.5.1-24:4.5.1-3
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4:4.5.2-14:4.5.2-24:4.5.3.1-14:4.5.4-14:4.5.4.1-24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm34:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm44:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm5
4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5+esm1, plus listed versions
4:4.6.6-54:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.2+esm14:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.2+esm24:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5+esm1
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1, plus listed versions
4:4.9.1+dfsg1-24:4.9.2+dfsg1-14:4.9.5+dfsg1-1ubuntu14:4.9.5+dfsg1-2
4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
phpMyAdmin
SUSE:Package Hub 12
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1
4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1
phpMyAdmin
SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP1
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1
4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1
phpMyAdmin
SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP2
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1
4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1
phpMyAdmin
openSUSE:Leap 15.1
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1
4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1
phpMyAdmin
openSUSE:Leap 15.2
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1
4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1
phpMyAdmin
SUSE:Package Hub 12
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.9.7-bp151.3.24.1
4.9.7-bp151.3.24.1
phpMyAdmin
SUSE:Package Hub 15
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.9.7-bp151.3.24.1
4.9.7-bp151.3.24.1
phpMyAdmin
SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP1
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.9.7-bp151.3.24.1
4.9.7-bp151.3.24.1
phpMyAdmin
openSUSE:Leap 15.1
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.9.7-bp151.3.24.1
4.9.7-bp151.3.24.1
phpMyAdmin
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 31 CVEs
before 5.1.1-1.2
5.1.1-1.2

Public exploits

Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.

Public exploits
SourceLinkDate
NucleiphpMyAdmin < 5.0.3 - SQL Injection

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, Nuclei, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2020-26935 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Phpmyadmin, published October 10, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 63.7%, the 99th percentile. Fixed in phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.9.6.

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