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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-cr65-p662-fx5c)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433474

Description

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

 - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 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) a crafted table name that is mishandled during privilege checking in table_row.phtml, (2) a
 crafted mysqld log_bin directive that is mishandled in log_selector.phtml, (3) the Transformation
 implementation, (4) AJAX error handling in js/ajax.js, (5) the Designer implementation, (6) the charts
 implementation in js/tbl_chart.js, or (7) the zoom-search implementation in rows_zoom.phtml.
 (CVE-2016-5733)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cr65-p662-fx5c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433474

Version: Revision 1.2

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: 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-2016-5733

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-2016-5733

BID: 91390

cwe: CWE-79