CVE-2016-2045: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SQL editor in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a SQL query that triggers JSON data in a response.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only
• phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin: version 4.5.0 only; version 4.5.0.1 only; version 4.5.0.2 only; version 4.5.1 only; version 4.5.2 only; version 4.5.3 only

Published 2016-02-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.