Comment # 26 on bug 994313 from Marcus Meissner

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-31/

PMASA-2016-31

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-31

Date: 2016-07-11
Summary

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities
Description

XSS vulnerabilities were discovered in:

    The database privilege check
    The "Remove partitioning" functionality

Specially crafted database names can trigger the XSS attack.
Severity

We consider these vulnerabilities to be of moderate severity.
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-2016-6608

CWE ids: CWE-661
Patches

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

    f0f8f2b
    0fad729
    a32b3ce
    7e510e8