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    CVE-2016-2040

    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.

    Published:Feb 20, 2016
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Feb 20, 2016
    EPSS Score:0.00507
    CVSS Score:5.4

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Leap
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Opensuse
    Vendor
    Phpmyadmin
    Product
    Phpmyadmin

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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    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
    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

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High