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phpMyAdmin Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 24, 2024

Package

composer phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 4.6, < 4.6.4

Patched versions

4.6.4

Description

XSS issues were discovered in phpMyAdmin. This affects the database privilege check and the "Remove partitioning" functionality. Specially crafted database names can trigger the XSS attack. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) are affected.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 11, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Apr 24, 2024
Last updated Apr 24, 2024

Severity

Moderate
6.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-6608

GHSA ID

GHSA-jfmj-27fp-qp67

Source code

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