CVE-2026-85388
Worklenz through 3.0.0 fails to properly validate the sort-field query parameter in pagination helper functions, allowing authenticated users to inject arbitrary PostgreSQL expressions into ORDER BY clauses. Attackers can use time-based and boolean-based blind SQL injection techniques to extract sensitive database content including password hashes from other tenants. This is an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-25947.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.5% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 38% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 8.1 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N- CVSS v4
- 8.6
- Weakness
- CWE-89
- Assigned by
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-03
- Last modified
- 2026-09-08
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://github.com/Worklenz/worklenz
- https://github.com/Worklenz/worklenz/blob/v3.0.0/worklenz-backend/src/controllers/job-titles-controller.ts
- https://github.com/Worklenz/worklenz/blob/v3.0.0/worklenz-backend/src/controllers/worklenz-controller-base.ts
- https://github.com/Worklenz/worklenz/issues/395
- https://github.com/Worklenz/worklenz/security/advisories/GHSA-f2f8-2ppj-85pf
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/worklenz-through-3.0.0-sql-injection-via-the-sort-field-query-parameter
- https://github.com/Worklenz/worklenz/issues/395