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phpMyAdmin: CVE-2016-9861: Vulnerability in phpMyAdmin

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 11, 2016
Added
May 4, 2017
Modified
May 21, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. Due to the limitation in URL matching, it was possible to bypass the URL white-list protection. 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.

Solution

phpmyadmin-upgrade-latest
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