diff --git a/bitnami/phpmyadmin/5/debian-12/Dockerfile b/bitnami/phpmyadmin/5/debian-12/Dockerfile
index cb779cdb7b30..dd4f8fb5fae8 100644
--- a/bitnami/phpmyadmin/5/debian-12/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/phpmyadmin/5/debian-12/Dockerfile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ARG DOWNLOADS_URL="downloads.bitnami.com/files/stacksmith"
 ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.base.name="docker.io/bitnami/minideb:bookworm" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.created="2026-05-21T04:50:20Z" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.created="2026-05-23T10:22:43Z" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Broadcom, Inc." \
       org.opencontainers.image.documentation="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/phpmyadmin/README.md" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/phpmyadmin" \
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ RUN --mount=type=secret,id=downloads_url,env=SECRET_DOWNLOADS_URL \
     mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ ; cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ || exit 1 ; \
     COMPONENTS=( \
       "render-template-1.0.9-165-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
-      "php-8.4.21-2-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
+      "php-8.4.21-3-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
       "apache-2.4.67-1-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
       "mysql-client-12.2.2-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
       "postgresql-client-18.4.0-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ ENV APACHE_HTTPS_PORT_NUMBER="" \
     APACHE_HTTP_PORT_NUMBER="" \
     APP_VERSION="5.2.3" \
     BITNAMI_APP_NAME="phpmyadmin" \
-    IMAGE_REVISION="29" \
+    IMAGE_REVISION="30" \
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/bitnami/postgresql/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" \
     PATH="/opt/bitnami/common/bin:/opt/bitnami/php/bin:/opt/bitnami/php/sbin:/opt/bitnami/apache/bin:/opt/bitnami/mysql/bin:/opt/bitnami/postgresql/bin:$PATH"
 
diff --git a/bitnami/phpmyadmin/5/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libapache.sh b/bitnami/phpmyadmin/5/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libapache.sh
index d6eb686df3f6..0e1a4818ccc7 100644
--- a/bitnami/phpmyadmin/5/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libapache.sh
+++ b/bitnami/phpmyadmin/5/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libapache.sh
@@ -803,6 +803,10 @@ apache_create_password_file() {
     local -r username="${2:?missing username}"
     local -r password="${3:?missing password}"
 
-    "${APACHE_BIN_DIR}/htpasswd" -bc "$file" "$username" "$password"
-    am_i_root && configure_permissions_ownership "$file" --file-mode "600" --user "$APACHE_DAEMON_USER" --group "$APACHE_DAEMON_GROUP"
+    # The -B flag uses bcrypt to hash the password, which is more secure than legacy APR1 (1000-iteration MD5) hash
+    # The -C flag computing time used for the bcrypt algorithm (default is 5)
+    "${APACHE_BIN_DIR}/htpasswd" -Bbc -C 12 "$file" "$username" "$password"
+    am_i_root && configure_permissions_ownership "$file" --user "$APACHE_DAEMON_USER" --group "$APACHE_DAEMON_GROUP"
+    # We can set strong permissions regardless the container is running as root or not
+    chmod 0600 "$file"
 }