CVE-2016-6607: phpmyadmin Cross-site Scripting
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-6607 is a medium (CVSS 6.1) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in phpmyadmin. EPSS estimates a 1.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70.4% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 1Timeline
- 11-12-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
XSS issues were discovered in phpMyAdmin. This affects Zoom search (specially crafted column content can be used to trigger an XSS attack); GIS editor (certain fields in the graphical GIS editor are not properly escaped and can be used to trigger an XSS attack); Relation view; the following Transformations: Formatted, Imagelink, JPEG: Upload, RegexValidation, JPEG inline, PNG inline, and transformation wrapper; XML export; MediaWiki export; Designer; When the MySQL server is running with a specially-crafted log_bin directive; Database tab; Replication feature; and Database search. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated6.1MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.1MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated6.1MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
1.32%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
70%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 1.32% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Alpine1 product
- phpmyadmin< 4.4.15.8-r0
Debian1 product
- phpmyadmin< 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
Phpmyadmin1 product
- phpmyadminEOL4.4.0 | 4.4.1 | 4.4.1.1 | 4.4.2 | 4.4.3 | 4.4.4 | 4.4.5 | 4.4.6 | 4.4.6.1 | 4.4.7 | 4.4.8 | 4.4.9 | 4.4.10 | 4.4.12 | 4.4.13 | 4.4.13.1 | 4.4.14.1 | 4.4.15 | 4.4.15.1 | 4.4.15.2 | 4.4.15.3 | 4.4.15.4 | 4.4.15.5 | 4.4.15.6 | 4.4.15.7 | 4.0.0 | 4.0.0:rc2 | 4.0.0:rc3 | 4.0.1 | 4.0.2 | 4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 4.0.4.1 | 4.0.4.2 | 4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 4.0.7 | 4.0.8 | 4.0.9 | 4.0.10 | 4.0.10.1 | 4.0.10.2 | 4.0.10.3 | 4.0.10.4 | 4.0.10.5 | 4.0.10.6 | 4.0.10.7 | 4.0.10.8 | 4.0.10.9 | 4.0.10.10 | 4.0.10.11 | 4.0.10.12 | 4.0.10.13 | 4.0.10.14 | 4.0.10.15 | 4.0.10.16 | 4.6.0 | 4.6.0:alpha1 | 4.6.0:rc1 | 4.6.0:rc2 | 4.6.1 | 4.6.2 | 4.6.3
Ubuntu1 product
- phpmyadminAll versions (No fix recorded)
4 vendors · 4 products