CVE-2016-2043

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the goToFinish1NF function in js/normalization.js in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.3 and 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a table name to the normalization page.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
phpMyAdmin: 4.4.1, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4, 4.4.5 (+21)

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.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-7.php
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/019c4f25d500ec5db9ba3b84cc961a7e4e850738
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.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-7.php
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/019c4f25d500ec5db9ba3b84cc961a7e4e850738

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