CVE-2026-71287
8.8 HIGHpublic exploit availablePublished 2026-08-05 · Updated 2026-08-10
AI risk analysis
- Summary
- The flaw allows SQL injection by not properly sanitizing ORDER BY column names, enabling attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.
- Exploitability
- Exploitation requires user-supplied input in an ORDER BY clause, which may be less common but still feasible with proper conditions.
- Blast radius
- If exploited, this could lead to full database compromise, data theft, and potential system takeover.
- Prioritized remediation
- Update Cacti to a version that addresses the sanitization issue or apply custom input validation.
rcesql-injectionwebsanitization
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NVD description
Cacti's sanitize_sql_column (lib/functions.php) sanitizes user-supplied ORDER BY column names using the regex . Because this allowlist retains letters, digits, underscore, parentheses, and dot (intended to support expressions like COUNT(id) and table.column), a payload such as passes through completely unmodified.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-89
Public exploit & PoC references
All references
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