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CVE-2016-2040

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2040 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin versions 4.0.x, 4.4.x, and 4.5.x, affecting products like fedoraproject and opensuse. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through various input fields, such as table names or search queries, leading to potential client-side compromise. While the attack complexity is low, requiring user interaction, the impact is limited to partial confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0164 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 15,224 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpmyadmin/phpmyadminFixed in: 4.0.10.13
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpmyadmin/phpmyadminFixed in: 4.4.15.3
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpmyadmin/phpmyadminFixed in: 4.5.4
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-pw34-qf6c-84fcmedium

phpMyAdmin XSS Vulnerability

May 14, 2022

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176739.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00028.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00049.html
Third Party Advisory
github.com / phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/75a55824012406a08c4debf5ddb7ae41c32a7dbc
Patch
github.com / phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/aca42efa01917cc0fe8cfdb2927a6399ca1742f2
Patch
github.com / phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/edffb52884b09562490081c3b8666ef46c296418
Patch
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3627
phpmyadmin.net / home_page/security/PMASA-2016-3.php
PatchVendor Advisory