CVE-2020-5504In phpMyAdmin 4 before 4.9.4 and 5 before 5.0.1, SQL injection exists in the user accounts page. A malicious user could inject custom SQL…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 28.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
In phpMyAdmin 4 before 4.9.4 and 5 before 5.0.1, SQL injection exists in the user accounts page. A malicious user could inject custom SQL in place of their own username when creating queries to this page. An attacker must have a valid MySQL account to access the server.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- phpMyAdmin 5.0.0 - SQL Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 52451webapps, phppublished 3 Dec 2025Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 28.0% · top 1.9% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadminGHSA-fgj8-93xx-f6g6 (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2020-1/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0056 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200115 [SECURITY] [DLA 2060-1] phpmyadmin security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2020-5504-phpmyadmin.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/MarkLee131/awesome-web-pocs/blob/main/CVE-2020-5504.md (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-3776 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fgj8-93xx-f6g6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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