Description

CakePHP through 5.4.3 contains an sql injection vulnerability that allows attackers to inject SQL by supplying unvalidated collation values to StringExpression and IdentifierExpression. Attackers controlling a collation name passed to the constructor or setCollation() can append SQL after the unquoted COLLATE clause, affecting every database driver within the connection's privileges.

Related CPE's

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References

https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/cakephp-collate-sqli

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/6f3dd91371ac0698b64024ddb21d57def9fbba91/src/Database/Expression/IdentifierExpression.php#L106

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/6f3dd91371ac0698b64024ddb21d57def9fbba91/src/Database/Expression/StringExpression.php#L77

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/21951faea40060dcc5cc1da3159056df66816d3c

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/ac07372e6a3045ce2030701a5bc5ed71aa2b4b82

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/ae8c354cf825aeb7090ea4b48ce98142446f3ac9

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/d04d342c3d1e0bac7ce7661bc098902cc412e595

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/19726

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cakephp-through-5.4.3-sql-injection-via-stringexpression-and-identifierexpression-collation

Weaknesses

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Primary
CWE-89

CVSS impact metrics

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

8.1 · High

Information

Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Deferred

Published

2026-10-30T12:16:38.550Z

8 hours ago

Last modified

2026-10-30T19:07:25.060Z

1 hour ago