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CVE-2016-5733
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2016-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-79
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) a crafted table name that is mishandled during privilege checking in table_row.phtml, (2) a crafted mysqld log_bin directive that is mishandled in log_selector.phtml, (3) the Transformation implementation, (4) AJAX error handling in js/ajax.js, (5) the Designer implementation, (6) the charts implementation in js/tbl_chart.js, or (7) the zoom-search implementation in rows_zoom.phtml.
Affected products
- openSUSE Leap: 42.1
- Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
- phpMyAdmin: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4.1 (+53)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00113.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00114.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91390
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/4d21b5c077db50c2a54b7f569d20f463cc2651f5
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/615212a14d7d87712202f37354acf8581987fc5a
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/79661610f6f65443e0ec1e382a7240437f28436c
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/8716855b309dbe65d7b9a5d681b80579b225b322
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/895a131d2eb7e447757a35d5731c7d647823ea8b
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/960fd1fd52023047a23d069178bfff7463c2cefc
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/be3ecbb4cca3fbe20e3b3aa4e049902d18b60865
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/d648ade18d6cbb796a93261491c121f078df2d88
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