CVE-2016-2040

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.13, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.3, and 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) table name, (2) SET value, (3) search query, or (4) hostname in a Location header.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
phpMyAdmin: 4.0.0, 4.0.0-rc2, 4.0.0-rc3, 4.0.1, 4.0.10, 4.0.10.1 (+39)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176739.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00028.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00049.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-3.php
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/75a55824012406a08c4debf5ddb7ae41c32a7dbc
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/aca42efa01917cc0fe8cfdb2927a6399ca1742f2
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/edffb52884b09562490081c3b8666ef46c296418
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176739.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00028.html

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