VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2045

medium
Published 2016-02-20 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.4

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SQL editor in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a SQL query that triggers JSON data in a response.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
64%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
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

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.0.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.0.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.5.3

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.