Security advisory

{
  "id": "55ea3f6db214490bd462f08511a55221fbf98697c94e028a028e4fc5653af642",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6608",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-6608",
    "summary": "XSS issues were discovered in phpMyAdmin. This affects the database privilege check and the \"Remove partitioning\" functionality. Specially crafted database names can trigger the XSS attack. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) are affected.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-6608",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-6608",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-6608",
        "GHSA-jfmj-27fp-qp67"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "37b38431d167915675fc8ab512470528147e72de"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "f2db92434b71973a1281dfbaec8837e51e602c77"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.6.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.6.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.6.0-alpha1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.6.0-alpha1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.6.0-rc1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.6.0-rc1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.6.0-rc2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.6.0-rc2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.6.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.6.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.6.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.6.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.6.3"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.6.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.6.0",
            "4.6.0-alpha1",
            "4.6.0-rc1",
            "4.6.0-rc2",
            "4.6.1",
            "4.6.2",
            "4.6.3"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6608.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:58.286189131Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32",
        "https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-31"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-6608",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 439052,
  "published_at": "2016-12-11T02:59:12.97+00:00"
}