CVE-2016-2040
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.13, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.3, and 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) table name, (2) SET value, (3)…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.64%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.13, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.3, and 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) table name, (2) SET value, (3) search query, or (4) hostname in a Location header.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.64% probability · 76th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/leap · opensuse/opensuse · phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.6% 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.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176739.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00028.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00049.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-3.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/75a55824012406a08c4debf5ddb7ae41c32a7dbcPatch
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/aca42efa01917cc0fe8cfdb2927a6399ca1742f2Patch
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/edffb52884b09562490081c3b8666ef46c296418Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176739.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00028.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00049.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-3.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/75a55824012406a08c4debf5ddb7ae41c32a7dbcPatch
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/aca42efa01917cc0fe8cfdb2927a6399ca1742f2Patch
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/edffb52884b09562490081c3b8666ef46c296418Patch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.