# CVE-2026-1312: Potential SQL injection via QuerySet.order\_by and FilteredRelation

- Also known as: GHSA-6426-9FV3-65X8, BIT-DJANGO-2026-1312, PYSEC-2026-47
- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 6.0.2, 5.2.11, 4.2.28
- Published: 2026-02-03 · Updated: 2026-07-15

## Affected

- django: from 6.0, fixed in 6.0.2; from 5.2, fixed in 5.2.11; from 4.2, fixed in 4.2.28
- django (PyPI): from 6.0a1, fixed in 6.0.2
- django (PyPI): from 5.2a1, fixed in 5.2.11
- django (PyPI): from 4.2a1, fixed in 4.2.28
- django (PyPI): from 4.2, fixed in 4.2.28; from 5.2, fixed in 5.2.11; from 6.0, fixed in 6.0.2

## Description

An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.2, 5.2 before 5.2.11, and 4.2 before 4.2.28. `.QuerySet.order_by()` is subject to SQL injection in column aliases containing periods when the same alias is, using a suitably crafted dictionary, with dictionary expansion, used in `FilteredRelation`. Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected. Django would like to thank Solomon Kebede for reporting this issue.

## What to do

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## References

- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/feb/03/security-releases/
- https://github.com/alpinine/CVE-2026-1312-Testing
- https://github.com/sw0rd1ight/CVE-2026-1312

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