Medium
Security advisory
phpMyAdmin before 4.6.2 places tokens in query strings and does not arrange for them to be stripped before external navigation, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading (1) HTTP requests or (2) server logs.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-5097
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
phpMyAdmin before 4.6.2 places tokens in query strings and does not arrange for them to be stripped before external navigation, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading (1) HTTP requests or (2) server logs.
osv:CVE-2016-5097
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:29.336434918Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2016-07-05T01:59:05.673+00:00"
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