phpMyAdmin Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SQL parser
Date: 2022-05
Affected: composer/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2016-2559
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 5.4 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the format function in libraries/sql-parser/src/Utils/Error.php in the SQL parser in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted query.


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