CVE-2016-5099

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.6 and 4.6.x before 4.6.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via special characters that are mishandled during double URL decoding.

Affected products

Opensuse: 13.1
phpMyAdmin: 4.4.0, 4.4.1, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4 (+23)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00043.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90877
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035979
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/b061096abd992801fbbd805ef6ff74e627528780
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-16
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00043.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90877
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035979
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/b061096abd992801fbbd805ef6ff74e627528780

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