CVE-2006-5718
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 1.7%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in error.php in phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 through 2.9.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 or US-ASCII encoded characters, which are injected into an error message, as demonstrated by a request with a utf7 charset parameter accompanied by UTF-7 data.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- EPSS score
- 1.7% (77th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5703)
- Published
- November 4, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5703 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
- phpmyadmin / phpmyadmin
References
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22599(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23086
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_122006.137.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-6(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450397/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20856(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4298
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29957
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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