CVE-2016-2561

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.5 and 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) normalization.php or (2) js/normalization.js in the database normalization page, (3) templates/database/structure/sortable_header.phtml in the database structure page, or (4) the pos parameter to db_central_columns.php in the central columns page.

• CWE-79

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178562.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178869.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00018.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00020.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/37c34d089aa19f30d11203bb0c7f85b486424372Patch
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/746240bd13b62b5956fc34389cfbdc09e1e67775Patch
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/983faa94f161df3623ecd371d3696a1b3f91c15fPatch
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/bcd4ce8cba1272fca52f2331c08f2e3ac19cbbefPatch
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/cc55f44a4a90147a007dee1aefa1cb529e23798bPatch
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/f33a42f1da9db943a67bda7d29f7dd91957a8e7ePatch
• https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-12/Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178562.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178869.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00018.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00020.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/37c34d089aa19f30d11203bb0c7f85b486424372Patch
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/746240bd13b62b5956fc34389cfbdc09e1e67775Patch
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/983faa94f161df3623ecd371d3696a1b3f91c15fPatch
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/bcd4ce8cba1272fca52f2331c08f2e3ac19cbbefPatch
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/cc55f44a4a90147a007dee1aefa1cb529e23798bPatch
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/f33a42f1da9db943a67bda7d29f7dd91957a8e7ePatch
• https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-12/Patch, Vendor Advisory

Published

Mar 1, 2016

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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