CVE-2016-5734: phpMyAdmin

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 81.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 does not properly choose delimiters to prevent use of the preg_replace e (aka eval) modifier, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted string, as demonstrated by the table search-and-replace implementation.

Affected products

• phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.0.4.1 only; …

Published 2016-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.