Check Point Advisories

PhpMyAdmin Sweky Remote Code Injection Exploit (CVE-2011-2506)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-2985
Date Published: 20 Oct 2013
Severity: High
Last Updated: Saturday 04 January, 2025
Source: CVE-2011-2506
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R75
Who is Vulnerable? PhpMyAdmin 3.x before 3.3.10.2
Vulnerability Description A Code Injection vulnerability has been reported in PhpMyAdmin.
Vulnerability DetailsThe vulnerability is due to insufficient restriction of the presence of comment closing delimiters parameters. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious request to the server. Successful exploitation could result in attacker-controlled script execution on the target server.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your product to the latest update. For information on how to update , go to SBP-2006-05, Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the PhpMyAdmin Sweky Remote Code Injection Exploit protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: Application Servers Protection Violation
Attack Information: PhpMyAdmin Sweky Remote Code Injection Exploit

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