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CVE-2016-2561
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…
Medium5.4EPSS 2.5%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- FEDORA-2016-65da02b95c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/bcd4ce8cba1272fca52f2331c08f2e3ac19cbbef (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-12/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/f33a42f1da9db943a67bda7d29f7dd91957a8e7e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3627 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/746240bd13b62b5956fc34389cfbdc09e1e67775 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/37c34d089aa19f30d11203bb0c7f85b486424372 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-02ee5b4002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/cc55f44a4a90147a007dee1aefa1cb529e23798b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/983faa94f161df3623ecd371d3696a1b3f91c15f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0666 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0663 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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