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CVE-2016-2561 Detail

Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178562.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178869.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00018.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00020.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627 CVE, MITRE
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/37c34d089aa19f30d11203bb0c7f85b486424372 CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/746240bd13b62b5956fc34389cfbdc09e1e67775 CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/983faa94f161df3623ecd371d3696a1b3f91c15f CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/bcd4ce8cba1272fca52f2331c08f2e3ac19cbbef CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/cc55f44a4a90147a007dee1aefa1cb529e23798b CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/f33a42f1da9db943a67bda7d29f7dd91957a8e7e CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-12/ CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-2561
NVD Published Date:
03/01/2016
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
MITRE