The pgAdmin server includes an HTTP API that is intended to be used to validate the path a user selects to external PostgreSQL utilities such as pg_dump and pg_restore. The utility is executed by the server to determine what PostgreSQL version it is from. Versions of pgAdmin prior to 6.17 failed to properly secure this API, which could allow an unauthenticated user to call it with a path of their choosing, such as a UNC path to a server they control on a Windows machine. This would cause an appropriately named executable in the target path to be executed by the pgAdmin server.

A malicious, but authorised and authenticated user can construct an HTTP request using their existing CSRF token and session cookie to manually upload files to any location that the operating system user account under which pgAdmin is running has permission to write.

phppgadmin through 7.12.1 allows sensitive actions to be performed without validating that the request originated from the application. One such area, "database.php" does not verify the source of an HTTP request. This can be leveraged by a remote attacker to trick a logged-in administrator to visit a malicious page with a CSRF exploit and execute arbitrary system commands on the server.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in functions.php in phpPgAdmin before 5.0.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) name or (2) type of a function.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpPgAdmin before 5.0.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) a web page title, related to classes/Misc.php; or the (2) return_url or (3) return_desc parameter to display.php.

Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/lib.inc.php in phpPgAdmin 4.2.1 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the _language parameter to index.php.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpPgAdmin 3.5 to 4.1.1, and possibly 4.1.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain input available in PHP_SELF in (1) redirect.php, possibly related to (2) login.php, different vectors than CVE-2007-2865.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in sqledit.php in phpPgAdmin 4.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the server parameter.

Encoded directory traversal vulnerability in phpPgAdmin 3.1 to 3.5.3 allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via "%2e%2e%2f" (encoded dot dot) sequences in the formLanguage parameter.

Directory traversal vulnerability in phpPgAdmin 2.2.1 and earlier versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) in an argument to the sql.php script.