CVE-2016-2561

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.5 and 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) normalization.php or (2) js/normalization.js in the database normalization page, (3) templates/database/structure/sortable_header.phtml in the database structure page, or (4) the pos parameter to db_central_columns.php in the central columns page.

Category

5.4
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.60%
Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory phpmyadmin.net
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178562.html vendor advisory
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/bcd4ce8cba1272fca52f2331c08f2e3ac19cbbef patch
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-12/ patch vendor advisory
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/f33a42f1da9db943a67bda7d29f7dd91957a8e7e patch
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627 vendor advisory
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/746240bd13b62b5956fc34389cfbdc09e1e67775 patch
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/37c34d089aa19f30d11203bb0c7f85b486424372 patch
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178869.html vendor advisory
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/cc55f44a4a90147a007dee1aefa1cb529e23798b patch
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/983faa94f161df3623ecd371d3696a1b3f91c15f patch
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00020.html vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00018.html vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2016-2561?
CVE-2016-2561 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2016-2561?
To fix CVE-2016-2561, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2016-2561 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2016-2561 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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