CVE-2016-5705
MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.60%phpMyAdmin vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 5/7/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/phpmyadminfrom 0, < 4:4.6.3-1
- Packagist/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>= 4.4.0, < 4.4.15.7
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (14)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5705
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5705
- PATCHhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00113.html
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00114.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/03f73d48369703e0d3584699b08e24891c3295b8
- WEBhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0b7416c5f4439ed3f11c023785f2d4c49a1b09fc
- WEBhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/364732e309cccb3fb56c938ed8d8bc0e04a3ca98
- WEBhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/36df83a97a7f140fdb008b727a94f882847c6a6f
- WEBhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/57ae483bad33059a885366d5445b7e1f6f29860a
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200227223416/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91378
- WEBhttps://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-21
- WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627