CVE-2014-4954

low
Published 2014-07-20 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.5
VIR risk
3.5

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PMA_getHtmlForActionLinks function in libraries/structure.lib.php in phpMyAdmin 4.2.x before 4.2.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted table comment that is improperly handled during construction of a database structure page.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4954

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-4.php

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.2.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.2.6-1
debian debiansidfixed4:4.2.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.2.6-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.5

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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