CVE-2016-5734
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 87.0%phpMyAdmin Code Injection vulnerability
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 5/7/2026
Description
phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 does not properly choose delimiters to prevent use of the preg_replace e (aka eval) modifier, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted string, as demonstrated by the table search-and-replace implementation.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/phpmyadminfrom 0, < 4:4.6.3-1
- Packagist/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>= 4.0.10.0, < 4.0.10.16
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (9)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5734
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5734
- PATCHhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
- WEBhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/1cc7466db3a05e95fe57a6702f41773e6829d54b
- WEBhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/4bcc606225f15bac0b07780e74f667f6ac283da7
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200227223418/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91387
- WEBhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40185
- WEBhttps://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-27