Comment # 15 on bug 994313 from Marcus Meissner

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-42/

PMASA-2016-42

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-42

Date: 2016-07-15
Summary

SQL injection attack as control user
Description

A vulnerability was discovered in the user interface preference feature where a
user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control
user.
Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.
Mitigation factor

The server must have a control user account created in MySQL and configured in
phpMyAdmin; installations without a control user are not vulnerable.
Affected Versions

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
Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, or 4.0.10.17 or newer or apply patch
listed below.
References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6619

CWE ids: CWE-661
Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:

    8ac57b1

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

    b49dba4

The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:

    7ef96c5