CVE-2016-2040

medium
Published 2016-02-20 · Modified 2024-02-16
CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
3.5
VIR risk
5.4

Description

phpMyAdmin XSS Vulnerability

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
64%
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-2016-2040

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/edffb52884b09562490081c3b8666ef46c296418

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/aca42efa01917cc0fe8cfdb2927a6399ca1742f2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/75a55824012406a08c4debf5ddb7ae41c32a7dbc

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-3.php

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
fedora fedora22affected
fedora fedora23affected
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.5.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.5.4-1
debian debiansidfixed4:4.5.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.5.4-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
php Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>=4.0,<4.0.10.134.0.10.13
php Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>=4.4,<4.4.15.34.4.15.3
php Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>=4.5,<4.5.44.5.4

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.11
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.12
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.1.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.6.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.11
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.12
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.13
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.13.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.14.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.0.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.0.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.3

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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