# CVE-2006-5116: Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin before 2.9.1-rc1 allow remote attackers to perform unauthorized act

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2006-10-02 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

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## References

- http://secunia.com/advisories/22126
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20253
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_072006.130.html
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-5
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1207
- http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.9.1-rc1.tar.gz?download
- http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-October/001067.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22781
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29301
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1677
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447491/100/0/threaded
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23086
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html

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