Medium severity · published Mar 1, 2016
CVE-2016-2561
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.5 and 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or…
5.4
CVSS
2.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.5 and 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) normalization.php or (2) js/normalization.js in the database normalization page, (3) templates/database/structure/sortable_header.phtml in the database structure page, or (4) the pos parameter to db_central_columns.php in the central columns page.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.5% · higher than 84% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PH
Phpmyadmin · Phpmyadmin
4.4.0; 4.4.1; 4.4.1.1; 4.4.2; 4.4.3; 4.4.4; +31 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2561
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2561
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178562.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178869.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00018.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00020.html
www.debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
Patch
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/37c34d089aa19f30d11203bb0c7f85b486424372
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