VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2559

medium
Published 2016-03-01 · Modified 2024-04-24
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CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.4

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
64%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4:4.5.5.1-1
sid Fixed 4:4.5.5.1-1
bullseye Fixed 4:4.5.5.1-1
bookworm Fixed 4:4.5.5.1-1

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
php Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>=4.5,<4.5.5.14.5.5.1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.0.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.0.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.3.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.4.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.5

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.