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GHSA-Q274-QF66-4HQ6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-05 15:32 – Updated: 2026-08-05 15:32

Details

Koha's guided report builder (reports/guided_reports.pl) reads the order_by CGI parameter and, for each value, a dynamically-named {order}_ovalue parameter, and concatenates both directly into an SQL ORDER BY clause with no allowlist or validation: my @order_by = $input->multi_param('order_by'); foreach my $order (@order_by) { my $value = $input->param($order . "_ovalue"); $query_orderby = " ORDER BY $order $value"; }. The resulting string is appended verbatim to the final query in C4::Reports::Guided ($query .= $orderby;) with no escaping. Since ORDER BY columns cannot be bound via prepared-statement placeholders, this requires an explicit allowlist, which does not exist. Any staff account with the low-privilege create_reports or execute_reports permission (commonly granted to non-admin library staff) can perform time-based blind SQL injection against the Koha database, which stores patron PII and staff/LDAP credentials.

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

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CVE-2026-71288 (GCVE-0-2026-71288)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-05 12:26 – Updated: 2026-08-05 15:49

Title

Koha SQL Injection via order_by and {order}_ovalue Parameters in guided_reports.pl

Summary

Koha's guided report builder (reports/guided_reports.pl) reads the `order_by` CGI parameter and, for each value, a dynamically-named `{order}_ovalue` parameter, and concatenates both directly into an SQL ORDER BY clause with no allowlist or validation: `my @order_by = $input->multi_param('order_by'); foreach my $order (@order_by) { my $value = $input->param($order . "_ovalue"); $query_orderby = " ORDER BY $order $value"; }`. The resulting string is appended verbatim to the final query in C4::Reports::Guided (`$query .= $orderby;`) with no escaping. Since ORDER BY columns cannot be bound via prepared-statement placeholders, this requires an explicit allowlist, which does not exist. Any staff account with the low-privilege create_reports or execute_reports permission (commonly granted to non-admin library staff) can perform time-based blind SQL injection against the Koha database, which stores patron PII and staff/LDAP credentials.

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-89

Assigner

TuranSec

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/Koha-Community/Koha
https://github.com/Koha-Community/Koha/blob/maste…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Koha Community	Koha	Affected: 0 , ≤ 26.05.01-1 (semver)

Credits

Saidakbarxon Maxsudxonov

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GHSA-Q274-QF66-4HQ6

CVE-2026-71288 (GCVE-0-2026-71288)

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