Medium
Security advisory
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.6 and 4.6.x before 4.6.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via special characters that are mishandled during double URL decoding.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-5099
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.6 and 4.6.x before 4.6.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via special characters that are mishandled during double URL decoding.
osv:CVE-2016-5099
Complete source record
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