CVE-2026-71287

8.8 HIGHpublic exploit available

Published 2026-08-05 · Updated 2026-08-10

AI risk analysis

Summary: The flaw allows an attacker to inject SQL commands by manipulating ORDER BY column names, leading to potential SQL injection attacks.
Exploitability: Exploitation is moderately easy as it requires crafting a specific payload that passes through the sanitization process.
Blast radius: If exploited, this could result in unauthorized data access, modification, or deletion, impacting the integrity and confidentiality of the database.
Detection: No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
Prioritized remediation: Upgrade to the latest version of Cacti, ensuring it includes the necessary security patches.

sql-injectionwebrce

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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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