export.php (aka the export script) in phpMyAdmin 4.x before 4.0.0-rc3 overwrites global variables on the basis of the contents of the POST superglobal array, which allows remote authenticated users to inject values via a crafted request.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-3241 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.37%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25003 | exploit_db | edb | 2013-04-25 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-07-30 | 4.68% | 3.37% | -1.31% |
| 2 | 2025-03-30 | 4.86% | 4.68% | -0.18% |
| 3 | 2025-03-29 | — | 4.86% | — |
Full EPSS history (6 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
|
unimportant | CVE-2013-3241 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (phpmyadmin), 4 status rows across 4 suites (bookworm, bullseye, sid, trixie): resolved 4. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-3241 |
ubuntu
|
medium | CVE-2013-3241 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (phpmyadmin), 7 status rows across 7 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, upstream): not-affected 6, needs-triage 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-3241 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| phpmyadmin | phpmyadmin | 4.0.0 | cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |