CVE-2026-71287Cacti sanitize_sql_column() Regex Allowlist Permits SQL Time-Delay Functions Leading to Blind SQL Injection

Description

Cacti's sanitize_sql_column (lib/functions.php) sanitizes user-supplied ORDER BY column names using the regex . Because this allowlist retains letters, digits, underscore, parentheses, and dot (intended to support expressions like COUNT(id) and table.column), a payload such as passes through completely unmodified.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://github.com/Cacti/cacti third-party-advisory
• https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/develop/lib/functions.php third-party-advisory