What is CVE-2020-35572?

CVE-2020-35572 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adminer, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2021-02-09.

How severe is CVE-2020-35572?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-35572 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Adminer

CVE-2020-35572

Adminer through 4.7.8 allows XSS via the history parameter to the default URI.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2021-02-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (80.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Adminer

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

sourceforge.net/p/adminer/news/ (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
sourceforge.net/p/adminer/bugs-and-features/775/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-35572?: CVE-2020-35572 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adminer, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2021-02-09.
How severe is CVE-2020-35572?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-35572 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.