What is CVE-2016-6627?

CVE-2016-6627 is a medium-severity vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-12-11.

How severe is CVE-2016-6627?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in phpMyAdmin

CVE-2016-6627

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An attacker can determine the phpMyAdmin host location through the file url.php. 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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2016-12-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (70.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 70.2% 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 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/92494 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-50 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32 (vendor-advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00009.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6627?: CVE-2016-6627 is a medium-severity vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-12-11.
How severe is CVE-2016-6627?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.