Critical CSRF Security Vulnerability in phpMyAdmin Database Tool Patched | Linux Today

Critical CSRF Security Vulnerability in phpMyAdmin Database Tool Patched

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Christine Hall
Jan 8, 2018

If you’ve got MySQL or MariaDB running on any of your machines — and you probably do — then there’s a good chance you’re also running phpMyAdmin, a popular free and open source MySQL administration tool. That means you might have a problem.

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Christine Hall

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