Comment # 19 on bug 994313 from Marcus Meissner

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-38/

PMASA-2016-38

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-38

Date: 2016-07-13
Summary

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities
Description

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities were found in the following areas:

    Navigation pane and database/table hiding feature. A specially-crafted
database name can be used to trigger an XSS attack.
    The "Tracking" feature. A specially-crafted query can be used to trigger an
XSS attack.
    GIS visualization feature.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical.
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 this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6615

CWE ids: CWE-661
Patches

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

    20db714
    6e8a1c0
    d0b6abf

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

    306c148
    78bed3c
    cc7d01d