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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2016-6607 json

XSS issues were discovered in phpMyAdmin.

published 2016-12-11 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7525

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

XSS issues were discovered in phpMyAdmin. This affects Zoom search (specially crafted column content can be used to trigger an XSS attack); GIS editor (certain fields in the graphical GIS editor are not properly escaped and can be used to trigger an XSS attack); Relation view; the following Transformations: Formatted, Imagelink, JPEG: Upload, RegexValidation, JPEG inline, PNG inline, and transformation wrapper; XML export; MediaWiki export; Designer; When the MySQL server is running with a specially-crafted log_bin directive; Database tab; Replication feature; and Database search. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.

Patch / fix

  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6607

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.6.5.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1

  • phpmyadmin Alpine 3.2 4.4.15.8-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2016-6607

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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-2016-6607 updated

phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 4.0.10.18, 4.4.15.9 and 4.6.5 versions

  • 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

1.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% 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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