# CVE-2026-71287: Cacti sanitize\_sql\_column() Regex Allowlist Permits SQL Time-Delay Functions Leading to Blind SQL Injection

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-05 · Updated: 2026-08-10

## Affected

- cacti: through 1.3.0-dev

## 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.

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## References

- https://github.com/Cacti/cacti
- https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/develop/lib/functions.php

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