CVE-2014-4954 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PMA_getHtmlForActionLinks function in libraries/structure.lib.php in phpMyAdmin 4.2.x before 4.2.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted table comment that is improperly handled during construction of a database structure page

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PMA_getHtmlForActionLinks function in libraries/structure.lib.php in phpMyAdmin 4.2.x before 4.2.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted table comment that is improperly handled during construction of a database structure page

Published Jul 20, 2014

3.5

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.45%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PMA_getHtmlForActionLinks function in libraries/structure.lib.php in phpMyAdmin 4.2.x before 4.2.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted table comment that is improperly handled during construction of a database structure page.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.45% 0.01450

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01450

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.45% (0.01450)	72.42th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.45% (0.01450)	69.85th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.21% (0.00209)	41.27th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.09% (0.00089)	39.81th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 26, 2024	0.09% (0.00089)	38.42th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.09% (0.00089)	36.39th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.06% (0.01061)	52.82th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 19, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	51.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	49.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	28.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-4.php
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68798
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/57475371a5b515c83bfc1bb2efcdf3ddb14787ed
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-4.php		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68798		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/57475371a5b515c83bfc1bb2efcdf3ddb14787ed		x_refsource_CONFIRM

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 20, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jul 14, 2014

Link CVE-2014-4954

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-4954

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-4954