Hi 80sec report this bug on wooyun,PhpMyadmin use a simplexml_load_string function to read xml from user input,this may be exploied to read files from the server or network in libraries/import/xml.php,some code like this /** * Load the XML string * * The option LIBXML_COMPACT is specified because it can * result in increased performance without the need to * alter the code in any way. It's basically a freebee. */ $xml = simplexml_load_string($buffer, "SimpleXMLElement", LIBXML_COMPACT); unset($buffer); /** * The XML was malformed */ if ($xml === FALSE) { so you just need to make a xml like this ]> &hi80sec; then import this xml in PhpMyAdmin,you will get the content you want. From:http://www.wooyun.org/bugs/wooyun-2010-03185 :)