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low 3.5

CVE-2014-4986 json

phpMyAdmin cross-site scripting Vulnerability in Table or Column Names

published 2014-07-20 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-jqmr-wqgp-8mh2 , EUVD-2022-4418

cvss
3.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in js/functions.js in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.1, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.2, and 4.2.x before 4.2.6 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) table name or (2) column name that is improperly handled during construction of an AJAX confirmation message.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0.10.1, 4.1.14.2, 4.2.6
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.2.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4986

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.6.5.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-4986 updated cvss 4.3

phpMyAdmin: Multiple XSS in AJAX confirmation messages (PMASA-2014-6)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
>=4.0.0, <4.0.10.1
>=4.1.0, <4.1.14.2
>=4.2.0, <4.2.6
4.0.10.1
4.1.14.2
4.2.6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.