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CVE-2021-21311

7.2, high Known exploited

Adminer Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability

CVSS
7.2, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
98% higher than 99.9% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
11 Feb 20215 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 29 Sept 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 20 Oct 2025, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

Adminer is an open-source database management in a single PHP file. In adminer from version 4.0.0 and before 4.7.9 there is a server-side request forgery vulnerability. Users of Adminer versions bundling all drivers (e.g. `adminer.php`) are affected. This is fixed in version 4.7.9.

Details

Vendor
Adminer
Product
adminer
Weakness
CWE-918 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
security-advisories@github.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References 6

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.