SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-rh74-5835-jpxp)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434502

Description

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

- setup/frames/index.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.15.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x
before 4.6.3 allows remote attackers to conduct BBCode injection attacks against HTTP sessions via a
crafted URI. (CVE-2016-5701)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rh74-5835-jpxp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434502

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.69

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-2016-5701

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-2016-5701

BID: 91383

cwe: CWE-74