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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-7rf8-9r8f-qf59)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432968

Description

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

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the format function in libraries/sql-
 parser/src/Utils/Error.php in the SQL parser in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allows remote
 authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted query. (CVE-2016-2559)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7rf8-9r8f-qf59

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432968

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2559

BID: 83704

cwe: CWE-79