CVE-2016-5704

medium
Published 2016-07-03 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.1

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the table-structure page in phpMyAdmin 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a comment.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
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-2016-5704

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-20/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/72213573182896bd6a6e5af5ba1881dd87c4a20b

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.6.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.6.3-1
debian debiansidfixed4:4.6.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.6.3-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
php Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>=4.6.0,<4.6.34.6.3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.2

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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