CVE-2016-2559: phpMyAdmin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the format function in libraries/sql-parser/src/Utils/Error.php in the SQL parser in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted query.

Affected products

• 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 2016-03-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.