What is CVE-2016-5705?

CVE-2016-5705 is a medium-severity vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2016-07-03.

How severe is CVE-2016-5705?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in phpMyAdmin

CVE-2016-5705

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7 and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) server-privileges certificate data fields on the user privileges page, (2) an "invalid JSON" error message in the error console, (3) a database name in the central columns implementation, (4) a group name, or (5) a search name in the bookmarks implementation.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2016-07-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 69.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

phpMyAdmin — versions 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.2
openSUSE Leap — versions 42.1
openSUSE — versions 13.1, 13.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/36df83a97a7f140fdb008b727a94f882847c6a6f (Patch)
www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-21/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/91378 (vdb-entry)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00114.html (vendor-advisory)
github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/57ae483bad33059a885366d5445b7e1f6f29860a (Patch)
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627 (vendor-advisory)
github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/364732e309cccb3fb56c938ed8d8bc0e04a3ca98 (Patch)
github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0b7416c5f4439ed3f11c023785f2d4c49a1b09fc (Patch)
github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/03f73d48369703e0d3584699b08e24891c3295b8 (Patch)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5705?: CVE-2016-5705 is a medium-severity vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2016-07-03.
How severe is CVE-2016-5705?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.