CVE-2016-6631: phpMyAdmin

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can execute a remote code execution attack against a server when phpMyAdmin is being run as a CGI application. Under certain server configurations, a user can pass a query string which is executed as a command-line argument by the file generator_plugin.sh. 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.