Comment # 18 on bug 994313 from Marcus Meissner

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-39/

PMASA-2016-39

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-39

Date: 2016-07-14
Summary

SQL injection attack
Description

A vulnerability was discovered in the following features where a user can
execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user: User
group Designer
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) and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8) are
affected
Solution

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

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting these vulnerabilities.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6616

CWE ids: CWE-661
Patches

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

    93a6913
    5d427d6
    5d427d6

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

    9f11a0e
    80b03a4
    80b03a4