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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-jvxx-8xxf-5495)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433544

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. When the arg_separator is different from its default & value, the
 CSRF token was not properly stripped from the return URL of the preference import action. 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. (CVE-2016-9866)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jvxx-8xxf-5495

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433544

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9866

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9866

BID: 94536

cwe: CWE-352