CVE-2016-2561: phpMyAdmin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin: version 4.4.0 only; version 4.4.1 only; version 4.4.1.1 only; version 4.4.2 only; version 4.4.3 only; version 4.4.4 only; …

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