Comment # 17 on bug 994313 from Marcus Meissner

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-40/

PMASA-2016-40

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-40

Date: 2016-07-14
Summary

SQL injection attack
Description

A vulnerability was reported where a specially crafted database and/or table
name can be used to trigger an SQL injection attack through the export
functionality.
Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious
Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) are affected
Solution

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

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6617

CWE ids: CWE-661
Patches

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

    ceeef53