# CVE-2025-54119: ADOdb's sqlite3 driver allows SQL injection

- Also known as: GHSA-VF2R-CXG9-P7RF
- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.22.10
- Published: 2025-08-05 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- ADOdb: fixed in 5.22.10
- adodb/adodb-php (Packagist): fixed in 5.22.10

## Description

ADOdb is a PHP database class library that provides abstractions for performing queries and managing databases. In versions 5.22.9 and below, improper escaping of a query parameter may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL statements when the code using ADOdb connects to a sqlite3 database and calls the metaColumns(), metaForeignKeys() or metaIndexes() methods with a crafted table name. This is fixed in version 5.22.10. To workaround this issue, only pass controlled data to metaColumns(), metaForeignKeys() and metaIndexes() method's $table parameter.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ADOdb, adodb/adodb-php, upgrade to a fixed version (5.22.10) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/ADOdb/ADOdb/security/advisories/GHSA-vf2r-cxg9-p7rf
- https://github.com/ADOdb/ADOdb/issues/1083
- https://github.com/ADOdb/ADOdb/commit/5b8bd52cdcffefb4ecded1b399c98cfa516afe03

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