CVE-2016-2045

MEDIUM

phpMyAdmin <4.5.4 - XSS

Title source: llm

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SQL editor in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a SQL query that triggers JSON data in a response.

References (5)

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176739.html

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-9.php

[Patch] https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0a24f92d081033576bfdd9d4bdec1a54501734c1

[Patch] https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/11496890d7e21786cbfd9fd17ab968f498116b3f

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4

EPSS 0.0028

EPSS Percentile 51.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status draft

Affected Products (8)

phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin

fedoraproject/fedora

Timeline

Published Feb 20, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026