CVE-2016-9866

CRITICAL

phpMyAdmin < 4.6.5, < 4.4.15.9, < 4.0.10.18 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via Preference Import Return URL

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. When the arg_separator is different from its default & value, the CSRF token was not properly stripped from the return URL of the preference import action. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94536
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-71
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 44.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-352
Status published
Products (50)
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.0
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.1
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.2
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.3
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.4
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.4.0
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.4.1
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.4.1.1
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.4.2
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.4.3
... and 40 more
Published Dec 11, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026