Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting phpmyadmin package, versions <4.6.3-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (69th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE34-PHPMYADMIN-468343
  • published22 Sept 2019
  • disclosed22 Sept 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Sep 2019

CVE-2016-5705  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.4 phpmyadmin to version 4.6.3-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream phpmyadmin package and not the phpmyadmin package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7 and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) server-privileges certificate data fields on the user privileges page, (2) an "invalid JSON" error message in the error console, (3) a database name in the central columns implementation, (4) a group name, or (5) a search name in the bookmarks implementation.