CVE-2026-71287

Cacti sanitize_sql_column() Regex Allowlist Permits SQL Time-Delay Functions Leading to Blind SQL Injection

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Aug 5, 2026
Updated: Aug 10, 2026
Reserved: Aug 5, 2026

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	TuranSec

Weaknesses

CWE-89

Affected Products

Product	Versions
cactiCacti	1.3.0-dev and earlierAffected

References

https://github.com/Cacti/cactithird-party-advisory
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/develop/lib/functions.phpthird-party-advisory

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