Medium
Security advisory
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.13, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.3, and 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) table name, (2) SET value, (3) search query, or (4) hostname in a Location header.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-2040
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.13, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.3, and 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) table name, (2) SET value, (3) search query, or (4) hostname in a Location header.
osv:CVE-2016-2040
Complete source record
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