CVE-2016-9856
MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.26%phpMyAdmin XSS Vulnerability
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 5/7/2026
Description
An XSS issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin because of an improper fix for CVE-2016-2559 in PMASA-2016-10. This issue is resolved by using a copy of a hash to avoid a race condition. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/phpmyadminfrom 0, < 4.4.15.9-r0
- Debian/phpmyadminfrom 0, < 4:4.6.5.1-1
- Packagist/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>= 4.6, < 4.6.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9856
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-9856
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9856
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20210123194716/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94530
- WEBhttps://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-64