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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-6q2j-8h8q-46mr)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432772

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7 and 4.6.x before
 4.6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) server-
 privileges certificate data fields on the user privileges page, (2) an "invalid JSON" error message in the
 error console, (3) a database name in the central columns implementation, (4) a group name, or (5) a
 search name in the bookmarks implementation. (CVE-2016-5705)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6q2j-8h8q-46mr

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432772

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 6/22/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5705

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5705

BID: 91378

cwe: CWE-79