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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 5
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/ae8c354cf825aeb7090ea4b48ce98142446f3ac9 patch
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/21951faea40060dcc5cc1da3159056df66816d3c patch
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/d04d342c3d1e0bac7ce7661bc098902cc412e595 patch
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/ac07372e6a3045ce2030701a5bc5ed71aa2b4b82 patch
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/19726 patch, issue-tracking
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 9.2 · cakephpNVD modified 2026-10-30 11:30
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 10
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/ae8c354cf825aeb7090ea4b48ce98142446f3ac9 patch
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/21951faea40060dcc5cc1da3159056df66816d3c patch
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/d04d342c3d1e0bac7ce7661bc098902cc412e595 patch
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/ac07372e6a3045ce2030701a5bc5ed71aa2b4b82 patch
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/19726 patch, issue-tracking
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/6f3dd91371ac0698b64024ddb21d57def9fbba91/src/Database/Expression/StringExpression.php#L77 technical-description
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/6f3dd91371ac0698b64024ddb21d57def9fbba91/src/Database/Expression/IdentifierExpression.php#L106 technical-description
- https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/cakephp-collate-sqli third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp product
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cakephp-through-5.4.3-sql-injection-via-stringexpression-and-identifierexpression-collation third-party-advisory