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phpMyAdmin: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2016-9857)

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phpMyAdmin: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2016-9857)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/10/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/02/2017
Modified
10/16/2019

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. XSS is possible because of a weakness in a regular expression used in some JavaScript processing. 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.

Solution(s)

  • phpmyadmin-upgrade-latest

References

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