CVE-2013-4996

medium
Published 2013-07-31 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 3.5.x before 3.5.8.2 and 4.0.x before 4.0.4.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) a crafted database name, (2) a crafted user name, (3) a crafted logo URL in the navigation panel, (4) a crafted entry in a certain proxy list, or (5) crafted content in a version.json file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.0.4.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.0.4.2-1
debian debiansidfixed4:4.0.4.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.0.4.2-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.0.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.1.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.2.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.2.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.2.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.3.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin3.5.8.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4.1

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.