Medium
Security advisory
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SQL editor in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a SQL query that triggers JSON data in a response.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-2045
- 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 the SQL editor in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a SQL query that triggers JSON data in a response.
osv:CVE-2016-2045
Complete source record
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