GHSA-g7j6-fmwx-7vp8High

CraftCMS's `ElementSearchController` Affected by Blind SQL Injection

Published
March 11, 2026
Last Modified
March 11, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The ElementSearchController::actionSearch() endpoint is missing the unset() protection that was added to ElementIndexesController in GHSA-2453-mppf-46cj.

The exact same SQL injection vulnerability (including criteria[orderBy], the original advisory vector) works on this controller because the fix was never applied to it.

Any authenticated control panel user (no admin required) can inject arbitrary SQL via criteria[where], criteria[orderBy], or other query properties, and extract the full database contents via boolean-based blind injection.

Users should update to the patched 5.9.9 release to mitigate the issue.

🎯 Affected products1

  • composer/craftcms/cms:>= 5.0.0-RC1, <= 5.9.8

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