CVE-2006-5718
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in error.php in phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 through 2.9.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 or US-ASCII encoded characters, which are injected into an error message, as demonstrated…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.68%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in error.php in phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 through 2.9.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 or US-ASCII encoded characters, which are injected into an error message, as demonstrated by a request with a utf7 charset parameter accompanied by UTF-7 data.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.68% probability · 77th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22599Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23086
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_122006.137.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-6Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450397/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20856Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4298
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29957
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22599Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23086
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_122006.137.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-6Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450397/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20856Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4298
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29957
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.