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CVE-2016-5099 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.6 and 4.6.x before 4.6.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbit…

published 2016-07-05 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6051

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.6 and 4.6.x before 4.6.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via special characters that are mishandled during double URL decoding.

Patch / fix

  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.6.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5099

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.6.5.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-5099 updated cvss 5.8

phpMyAdmin: Multiple issues fixed in 4.6.2 and 4.4.15.6 (PMASA-2016-16,PMASA-2016-15,PMASA-2016-14)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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