VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-5387

medium
Published 2014-11-04 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in EllisLab ExpressionEngine before 2.9.1 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) column_filter or (2) category[] parameter to system/index.php or the (3) tbl_sort[0][] parameter in the comment module to system/index.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ellislabexpressionengine2..5.4
ellislabexpressionengine2.0.0
ellislabexpressionengine2.0.1
ellislabexpressionengine2.0.2
ellislabexpressionengine2.3.1
ellislabexpressionengine2.5.5
ellislabexpressionengine2.6.1
ellislabexpressionengine2.7.1
ellislabexpressionengine2.7.2
ellislabexpressionengine2.8.1
expressionengineexpressionengine{"endIncluding":"2.9.0"}
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.3
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.4
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.5
expressionengineexpressionengine2.2.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.2.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.2.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.3.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.4.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.5.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.5.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.5.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.5.3
expressionengineexpressionengine2.6.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.7.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.7.3
expressionengineexpressionengine2.8.0

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.