{"id":"CVE-2016-6616","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-6616","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:58:00.234Z","title":"In the \"User group\" and \"Designer\" features, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user.","description":"An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the \"User group\" and \"Designer\" features, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8) are affected.","published":"2016-12-11T02:59:23.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:51:28.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-89"],"affected":["phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin"],"epss":{"score":0.0151,"percentile":0.74261,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.51%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95042","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-39","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95042","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-39","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6616","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}