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CVE-2014-4954

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-07-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PMA_getHtmlForActionLinks function in libraries/structure.lib.php in phpMyAdmin 4.2.x before 4.2.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted table comment that is improperly handled during construction of a database structure page.

Affected products

• phpMyAdmin: 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.2.5

References

• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-4.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68798
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/57475371a5b515c83bfc1bb2efcdf3ddb14787ed
• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-4.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68798
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/57475371a5b515c83bfc1bb2efcdf3ddb14787ed

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