# CVE-2026-52771: YesWiki: Second-Order SQL Injection in Page Delete API via Unescaped Page Tag (\`ApiController::deletePage\`)

- Also known as: GHSA-8F2V-2QHJ-GFWG
- Severity: CVSS 8.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.6.6
- Published: 2026-09-04 · Updated: 2026-09-08

## Affected

- yeswiki: from 4.2.0, fixed in 4.6.6
- yeswiki/yeswiki (Packagist): from 4.2.0, fixed in 4.6.6

## Description

YesWiki is a wiki system written in PHP. From version 4.2.0 to before version 4.6.6, ApiController::deletePage() interpolates a page tag retrieved from the database into a DELETE FROM …_links WHERE to_tag = '$tag' query without escaping. The page tag is attacker-controlled — the POST /api/pages/{tag} API accepts arbitrary URL-encoded values, including single quotes, and stores them. A low-privilege authenticated user can therefore create a page whose tag is a SQL fragment, make the page non-orphaned via the standard {{include page="…"}} link mechanism, and then invoke the delete endpoint to execute arbitrary SQL inside the wiki database - including time-based blind data exfiltration from any table. This issue has been patched in version 4.6.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on yeswiki, yeswiki/yeswiki, upgrade to a fixed version (4.6.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/security/advisories/GHSA-8f2v-2qhj-gfwg
- https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/commit/23d3cc124613b9428ab963b31807c08879a9c631
- https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/releases/tag/v4.6.6

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