Unauthenticated SQL Injection in dotCMS Core Publish Audit API
CVE-2026-8054 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability in dotCMS Core affecting the Publish Audit API endpoints /api/auditPublishing/get and /api/auditPublishing/getAll. In vulnerable versions, these endpoints did not enforce authentication and accepted attacker-controlled input that was incorporated into dynamically constructed SQL statements without proper sanitization or parameter binding. The vulnerable code path is described as passing JSON-supplied bundle identifiers into PublishAuditAPIImpl, where values were wrapped and concatenated into a query of the form select * from publishing_queue_audit where bundle_id in (%s). This allowed remote unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary SQL against the backend PostgreSQL database. The issue affects dotCMS Core versions 25.11.04-1 through 26.04.28-02. LTS releases were not affected because the vulnerable code path was not backported.
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An unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the dotCMS Core Publish Audit API.
A critical unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in dotCMS Core's Publish Audit API that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL against the PostgreSQL database, leading to full read/write/delete access and potential downstream compromise.
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