# CVE-2025-52390: Saurus CMS Community Edition since commit d886e5b0 (2010-04-23) is vulnerable to a SQL Injection vulnerability in the \`prepareSearchQuery()\`

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-08-01 · Updated: 2025-08-01

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Saurus CMS Community Edition since commit d886e5b0 (2010-04-23) is vulnerable to a SQL Injection vulnerability in the `prepareSearchQuery()` method in `FulltextSearch.class.php`. The application directly concatenates user-supplied input (`$search_word`) into SQL queries without sanitization, allowing attackers to manipulate the SQL logic and potentially extract sensitive information or escalate their privileges.

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## References

- https://github.com/sauruscms/Saurus-CMS-Community-Edition/blob/d886e5b0c1e2b42cd74e2184e7c81c720cd9de6b/classes/FulltextSearch.class.php#L331
- https://github.com/theharshkothari/vulnerability-research/blob/main/CVE-2025-52390.md

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