Sylius has a DQL Injection via API Order Filters

Impact

Sylius API filters ProductPriceOrderFilter and TranslationOrderNameAndLocaleFilter pass user-supplied order direction values directly to Doctrine's orderBy() without validation. An attacker can inject arbitrary DQL:

GET /api/v2/shop/products?order[price]=ASC,%20variant.code%20DESC

Patches

The issue is fixed in versions: 1.9.12, 1.10.16, 1.11.17, 1.12.23, 1.13.15, 1.14.18, 2.0.16, 2.1.12, 2.2.3 and above.

Workarounds

An EventSubscriber that sanitizes order query parameters only on API routes before they reach the vulnerable filters.

The subscriber accepts an $apiRoute constructor parameter (default /api/v2) and skips non-API requests entirely — so there is zero overhead on shop/admin page requests.

This follows the same pattern used by Sylius's own KernelRequestEventSubscriber (src/Sylius/Bundle/ApiBundle/EventSubscriber/KernelRequestEventSubscriber.php), which also uses str_contains($pathInfo, $this->apiRoute) to scope logic to API routes.

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Step 1 — Create the EventSubscriber

src/EventSubscriber/SanitizeOrderDirectionSubscriber.php:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\EventSubscriber;

use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\RequestEvent;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\KernelEvents;

final class SanitizeOrderDirectionSubscriber implements EventSubscriberInterface
{
    private const ALLOWED_DIRECTIONS = ['asc', 'desc'];

    public function __construct(
        private string $apiRoute,
    ) {
    }

    public static function getSubscribedEvents(): array
    {
        return [
            KernelEvents::REQUEST => ['sanitizeOrderParameters', 64],
        ];
    }

    public function sanitizeOrderParameters(RequestEvent $event): void
    {
        if (!str_contains($event->getRequest()->getPathInfo(), $this->apiRoute)) {
            return;
        }

        $request = $event->getRequest();

        /** @var mixed $order */
        $order = $request->query->all()['order'] ?? null;
        if (!is_array($order)) {
            return;
        }

        $needsSanitization = false;
        $sanitized = [];
        foreach ($order as $field => $direction) {
            if (is_string($direction) && in_array(strtolower($direction), self::ALLOWED_DIRECTIONS, true)) {
                $sanitized[$field] = $direction;
            } else {
                $needsSanitization = true;
            }
        }

        if (!$needsSanitization) {
            return;
        }

        $all = $request->query->all();
        $all['order'] = $sanitized;
        $request->query->replace($all);

        $request->server->set('QUERY_STRING', http_build_query($all));
        $request->attributes->set('_api_filters', $all);
    }
}

Step 2 — Register the service

Option A — If your config/services.yaml already has App\ autowiring (Symfony default):

# Nothing to do — autoconfigure picks up EventSubscriberInterface automatically.
# Optionally bind the API route prefix:
services:
    App\EventSubscriber\SanitizeOrderDirectionSubscriber:
        arguments:
            $apiRoute: '%sylius.security.new_api_route%'

Option B — If there is no App\ autowiring:

services:
    App\EventSubscriber\SanitizeOrderDirectionSubscriber:
        arguments:
            $apiRoute: '%sylius.security.new_api_route%'
        tags: ['kernel.event_subscriber']

Using %sylius.security.new_api_route% ties the subscriber to the same prefix Sylius uses (/api/v2 by default). If the parameter is not available, hardcode '/api/v2' instead.

Step 3 — Clear cache

bin/console cache:clear

Reporters

We would like to extend our gratitude to the following individuals for their detailed reporting and responsible disclosure of this vulnerability:

• Chris Alupului (@Neosprings)
• Bartłomiej Nowiński (@bnBart)

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Open an issue in Sylius issues
• Email us at [email protected]