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CVE-2026-115934: SQL injection leading to privilege escalation

CriticalCVSS 9.3 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 37/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.48% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • Fixed version: craftcms cms 4.18.9, 5.11.2.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to craftcms cms 4.18.9, 5.11.2 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

Published
Nov 9, 2026
Updated
Nov 12, 2026
EPSS
0.4% · 42th percentile

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Action score

37

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
37 / 40 · 9.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · Hackrate
9.3
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Hackrate). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • craftcms cms

    • 5.0.0 and later · before 5.11.2affected · semver
    • 4.0.0 and later · before 4.18.9affected · semver

Same product

craftcms: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-123488Craft CMS 4.0.0 before 4.18.9 SQL Injection via Element Search Endpoint
    38Monitor
  • CVE-2026-124427Craft CMS 5.0.0 before 5.11.2 GraphQL Schema Scope Bypass via prev/next
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2026-112776Craft CMS 5.0.0 before 5.11.0 GraphQL Site-Scope Bypass via Mutations
    37Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-124429Nov 8, 2026 · Craft CMS 5.0.0 before 5.11.2 Privilege Escalation via Public Registration
    34Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-124430Nov 8, 2026 · Craft CMS 5.10.0 before 5.11.2 RCE via app/render-elements Signing Oracle
    34Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-124431Nov 8, 2026 · Craft CMS 5.10.0 before 5.11.2 Unauthorized Volume Browsing via Asset Replacement
    21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
craftcms cms4.18.9Vendor (CNA)
craftcms cms5.11.2Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

  1. Published
  2. Fix recordedsame day
  3. TodayNov 13, 2026+4 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-1234883 days apartCraft CMS 4.0.0 before 4.18.9 SQL Injection via Element Search Endpoint
    38Monitor
  • CVE-2026-1234913 days apartCraft CMS 4.0.0 before 4.18.9 Unauthenticated SQL Injection via GraphQL Eager-Load Select
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2026-1234893 days apartCraft CMS 4.0.0 before 4.18.9 Blind SQL Injection via getNext/getPrev Criteria
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-7999168 days apartAuthenticated SQL Injection via nested eager-loading criteria
    28Monitor

Not on record for this CVE: patch commit or PR link · public bounty program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Root cause

The query text is built by concatenating user input. The database cannot tell where the data ends and the command begins.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-89 class

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Vulnerable

ts
const owner = req.query.owner;const rows = await db.query(  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = '" + owner + "'");

Fixed

ts
const owner = req.query.owner;const rows = await db.query(  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = $1",  [owner]);

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. SSVC exploitation— → none
  2. Exploit maturity— → none
  3. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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