CVE-2016-6609: phpMyAdmin

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A specially crafted database name could be used to run arbitrary PHP commands through the array export feature. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.

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 2016-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.