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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-jqmr-wqgp-8mh2)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434941

Description

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

 - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in js/functions.js in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before
 4.0.10.1, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.2, and 4.2.x before 4.2.6 allow remote authenticated users to inject
 arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) table name or (2) column name that is improperly handled
 during construction of an AJAX confirmation message. (CVE-2014-4986)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jqmr-wqgp-8mh2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434941

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

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: Low

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-2014-4986

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: 7/20/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4986

BID: 68803

cwe: CWE-79