Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package phpmyadmin  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-PHPMYADMIN-665552
  • published5 Jul 2016
  • disclosed5 Jul 2016

Introduced: 5 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-5099  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream phpmyadmin package and not the phpmyadmin package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.6 and 4.6.x before 4.6.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via special characters that are mishandled during double URL decoding.