phpMyAdmin vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
Date: 2022-05
Affected: composer/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin, composer/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin, composer/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2016-5733
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 6.1 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) a crafted table name that is mishandled during privilege checking in table_row.phtml, (2) a crafted mysqld log_bin directive that is mishandled in log_selector.phtml, (3) the Transformation implementation, (4) AJAX error handling in js/ajax.js, (5) the Designer implementation, (6) the charts implementation in js/tbl_chart.js, or (7) the zoom-search implementation in rows_zoom.phtml.


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