CVE-2016-6630: phpMyAdmin

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An authenticated user can trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by entering a very long password at the change password dialog. 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 4.6.0 only; version 4.6.1 only; version 4.6.2 only; version 4.6.3 only; version 4.4.0 only; version 4.4.1 only; …

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