CVE-2016-6608
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.1
Description
XSS issues were discovered in phpMyAdmin. This affects the database privilege check and the "Remove partitioning" functionality. Specially crafted database names can trigger the XSS attack. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) are affected.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin | >=4.6,<4.6.4 | 4.6.4 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| phpmyadmin | phpmyadmin | 4.6.0 | |
| phpmyadmin | phpmyadmin | 4.6.1 | |
| phpmyadmin | phpmyadmin | 4.6.2 | |
| phpmyadmin | phpmyadmin | 4.6.3 | |
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.