What is CVE-2016-5732?

CVE-2016-5732 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-2016-5732?

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

XSS in phpMyAdmin

CVE-2016-5732

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the partition-range implementation in templates/table/structure/display_partitions.phtml in the table-structure page in phpMyAdmin 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted table parameters.

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: 0.016 (75.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 75.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

phpMyAdmin — versions 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-25/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0815af37f483f329f0c0565d68821fea9c47b5f5 (Patch)
github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/792cd1262f012b9b13639519d414f2acaeb5e972 (Patch)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5732?: CVE-2016-5732 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-2016-5732?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.