CVE-2016-9853: phpMyAdmin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an unexpected way, it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the fopen wrapper issue.

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.