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CVE-2017-1000015

phpMyAdmin CSS Injection Vulnerability

6.1 MediumFix available

phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a CSS injection attack through crafted cookie parameters

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

1.15%Down 1.6 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.1

phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a CSS injection attack through crafted cookie parameters

Record
CVE-2017-1000015
CVSS 3.0
6.1 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness
CWE-79
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a CSS injection attack through crafted cookie parameters

Record
CVE-2017-1000015
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-2168 No score

phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a CSS injection attack through crafted cookie parameters

Record
EUVD-2022-2168
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-3fgq-cmr4-97rr 6.1

phpMyAdmin CSS Injection Vulnerability

phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a CSS injection attack through crafted cookie parameters

Record
GHSA-3fgq-cmr4-97rr
CVSS 3.0
6.1 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness
CWE-79
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.1

phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a CSS injection attack through crafted cookie parameters

Record
CVE-2017-1000015
CVSS 3.0
6.1 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000015 6.1

phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a CSS injection attack through crafted cookie parameters

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000015
CVSS 3.0
6.1 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVGHSA-3fgq-cmr4-97rr 6.1

phpMyAdmin CSS Injection Vulnerability

phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a CSS injection attack through crafted cookie parameters

Record
GHSA-3fgq-cmr4-97rr
CVSS 3.0
6.1 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness
CWE-79
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000015 6.1

phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a CSS injection attack through crafted cookie parameters

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000015
CVSS 3.0
6.1 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1 No score

phpMyAdmin-5.1.1-1.2 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the phpMyAdmin-5.1.1-1.2 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4843-1 No score

phpmyadmin vulnerabilities

Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly managed input in the form of passwords. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2014-9218)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input in the form of database names in the PHP Array export feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to run arbitrary PHP commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6609)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6619)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyadmin failed to properly sanitize input. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6630)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass AllowRoot restrictions and deny rules for usernames. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9849)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin would allow sensitive information to be leaked when the argument separator in a URL was not the default & value. An attacker could use this vulnerability to obtain the CSRF token of a user. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9866)

Isaac Bennetch discovered that phpMyAdmin was incorrectly restricting user access due to the behavior of the substr function on some PHP versions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass login restrictions established for users that have no password set. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-18264)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input in the form of parameters sent during a table editing operation. An attacker could use this vulnerability to trigger an endless recursion and cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000014)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input used to generate a web page. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to execute CSS injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000015)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via a crafted URL. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-7260)

It was discovered phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled database names. An attacker could possibly use this to trigger a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-12581)

Daniel Le Gall discovered that phpMyAdmin would expose sensitive information to unauthorized actors due to an error in its transformation feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to leak the contents of a local file. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19968)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled user input. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19970)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted database name. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-11768)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled some requests. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross…

Record
USN-4843-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Packagist
4.6.0 up to 4.6.6
4.6.6
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Packagist
4.4.0 up to 4.4.15.10
4.4.15.10
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Packagist
4.0.0 up to 4.0.10.19
4.0.10.19
phpmyadmin
Debian:12
before 4:4.6.6-1
4:4.6.6-1
phpmyadmin
Debian:13
before 4:4.6.6-1
4:4.6.6-1
phpmyadmin
Debian:14
before 4:4.6.6-1
4:4.6.6-1
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Packagist
4.0.0 up to 4.0.10.19, plus listed versions
4.0.14.0.104.0.10.14.0.10.24.0.10.3
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4.0.10.44.0.10.54.0.10.64.0.10.74.0.10.84.0.10.94.0.24.0.34.0.44.0.4.14.0.4.24.0.54.0.64.0.74.0.84.0.9
4.0.10.19
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
before 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4, plus listed versions
4:4.0.6-14:4.0.8-14:4.0.9-14:4.0.10-14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm24:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
before 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6, plus listed versions
4:4.4.13.1-14:4.5.0.2-24:4.5.1-14:4.5.1-24:4.5.1-3
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4:4.5.2-14:4.5.2-24:4.5.3.1-14:4.5.4-14:4.5.4.1-24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm34:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm44:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm5
4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4, plus listed versions
4:4.0.6-14:4.0.8-14:4.0.9-14:4.0.10-14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm24:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6, plus listed versions
4:4.4.13.1-14:4.5.0.2-24:4.5.1-14:4.5.1-24:4.5.1-3
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4:4.5.2-14:4.5.2-24:4.5.3.1-14:4.5.4-14:4.5.4.1-24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm34:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm44:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm5
4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5+esm1, plus listed versions
4:4.6.6-54:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.2+esm14:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.2+esm24:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5+esm1
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1, plus listed versions
4:4.9.1+dfsg1-24:4.9.2+dfsg1-14:4.9.5+dfsg1-1ubuntu14:4.9.5+dfsg1-2
4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
phpMyAdmin
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 31 CVEs
before 5.1.1-1.2
5.1.1-1.2

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
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Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-1000015 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) in Phpmyadmin, published July 13, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.15%, the 67th percentile. Fixed in phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.6.

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