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GHSA-6q2j-8h8q-46mr phpMyAdmin vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2016-5705
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2025-04-14
Affected packages
• Packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin: >= 4.4.0, < 4.4.15.7 → fixed in 4.4.15.7
• Packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin: >= 4.6.0, < 4.6.3 → fixed in 4.6.3
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7 and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) server-privileges certificate data fields on the user privileges page, (2) an "invalid JSON" error message in the error console, (3) a database name in the central columns implementation, (4) a group name, or (5) a search name in the bookmarks implementation.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2016-5705 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7 and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allow remote attackers to… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5705 advisory
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/03f73d48369703e0d3584699b08e24891c3295b8 web
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0b7416c5f4439ed3f11c023785f2d4c49a1b09fc web
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/364732e309cccb3fb56c938ed8d8bc0e04a3ca98 web
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/36df83a97a7f140fdb008b727a94f882847c6a6f web
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/57ae483bad33059a885366d5445b7e1f6f29860a web
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin package
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227223416/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91378 web
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-21 web
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00113.html web
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00114.html web
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627 web