CVE-2016-9857: phpMyAdmin

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. XSS is possible because of a weakness in a regular expression used in some JavaScript processing. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.

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