CVE-2016-2559

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    CVE-2016-2559

    Published: 1 Mar 2016Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the format function in libraries/sql-parser/src/Utils/Error.php in the SQL parser in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted query.

    References: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178562.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178869.html, https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-10/, https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/3a6a9a807d99371ee126635e1a505fc1fe0df32c

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 796e6ae09301a7ea8aae74fdb3bb44538c0f5151
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.5.0
    4.5.0-rc1
    4.5.0.1
    4.5.0.2
    4.5.1
    4.5.2
    4.5.3
    4.5.3.1
    4.5.4
    4.5.4.1
    4.5.5

    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
    CVE-2016-2559 | CVE-DB