CVE-2016-2561

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.5 and 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) normalization.php or (2) js/normalization.js in the database normalization page, (3) templates/database/structure/sortable_header.phtml in the database structure page, or (4) the pos parameter to db_central_columns.php in the central columns page.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 4.4.0, 4.4.1, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4 (+31)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178562.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178869.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00020.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/37c34d089aa19f30d11203bb0c7f85b486424372
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/746240bd13b62b5956fc34389cfbdc09e1e67775
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/983faa94f161df3623ecd371d3696a1b3f91c15f
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/bcd4ce8cba1272fca52f2331c08f2e3ac19cbbef
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/cc55f44a4a90147a007dee1aefa1cb529e23798b
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/f33a42f1da9db943a67bda7d29f7dd91957a8e7e
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-12/

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