CVE-2006-5718: phpMyAdmin

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in error.php in phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 through 2.9.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 or US-ASCII encoded characters, which are injected into an error message, as demonstrated by a request with a utf7 charset parameter accompanied by UTF-7 data.

Affected products

• phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin: version 2.6.4_pl1 only; version 2.6.4_pl3 only; version 2.6.4_pl4 only; version 2.6.4_rc1 only; version 2.7 only; version 2.7.0_beta1 only; …

Published 2006-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.