CVE-2026-115934
Received
Received - Intake
SQL Injection in Craft CMS
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-115934, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-11-09
Last updated on: 2026-11-09
Assigner: Hackrate
Description
Description
An unauthenticated SQL injection can occur on the front end of any site that uses craft.search to perform a search, allowing stacked query execution and enabling escalation to an administrator.
Note that this only affects MySQL/MariaDB.
Impact * SQL injection — The attribute parameter is concatenated into the query unsanitized, and because PDO runs with emulated prepares, stacked statements execute. This gives unauthenticated read and write access to the application database.
* Privilege escalation to administrator — The write primitive was used to set the admin flag on user ID 1 in the users table, confirmed by reading the value back. Craft short-circuits its permission checks on this single column, so no further changes were needed. The same primitive can overwrite any account’s password hash.
Update to the patched versions (4.18.9 and 5.11.2) to get the fix.
If you cannot update immediately, you can block front-end requests with %5Battribute%5D and [attribute] anywhere in the query string as a temporary mitigation.
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Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-89 | The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data. |
