CVE-2026-119419
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Description
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.
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.2
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-30 12:16:38.550000
Last modified
2026-10-30 12:16:38.550000
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"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-10-30T12:16:38.550",
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}
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"url": "https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/cakephp-collate-sqli",
"source": "[email protected]"
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"url": "https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp",
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}