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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2026-71287

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.

HIGH 8.8EPSS 0.31%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.31%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

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 3.1
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.31% probability · 23th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-89
Source
309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.