CVE-2016-6608

medium
Published 2016-12-11 · Modified 2024-04-24
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

XSS issues were discovered in phpMyAdmin. This affects the database privilege check and the "Remove partitioning" functionality. Specially crafted database names can trigger the XSS attack. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) are affected.

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-2016-6608

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-31

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
debian debiansidfixed4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
php Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>=4.6,<4.6.44.6.4

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.3

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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