Strapi up to 4.26.0/5.33.1 Database Utility db.connection.raw sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in Strapi up to 4.26.0/5.33.1 and classified as critical. Impacted is the function db.connection.raw of the component Database Utility. Such manipulation leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-22599. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Strapi up to 4.26.0/5.33.1. Affected by this issue is the function db.connection.raw of the component Database Utility. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Strapi is an open source headless content management system. In versions on the 4.x branch prior to 4.26.1 and on the 5.x branch prior to 5.33.2, a database-query injection vulnerability existed in the Strapi Content-Type Builder write API. An authenticated administrator could inject arbitrary database statements through the `column.defaultTo` attribute when creating or modifying a content type. Setting `defaultTo` as a tuple `[value, { isRaw: true }]` caused the value to be passed directly into Knex's `db.connection.raw()` during schema migration without sanitization, allowing arbitrary statement execution at the database layer. Depending on the database engine, this enabled arbitrary file read via database utility functions, denial of service via forced server crash on schema-migration error, and on engines that permit external program execution, remote code execution against the database server. The patch in versions 4.26.1 and 5.33.2 addresses this by restricting all Content-Type Builder write APIs to development mode only. Production deployments running v5.33.2 or later return 404 for requests against `/content-type-builder/content-types` and related endpoints, removing the network-reachable attack surface entirely.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-22599 since 01/07/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 4.26.1 or 5.33.2 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-1552). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Open Source Strapi

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• Strapi

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.12
• 4.13
• 4.14
• 4.15
• 4.16
• 4.17
• 4.18
• 4.19
• 4.20
• 4.21
• 4.22
• 4.23
• 4.24
• 4.25
• 4.26.0
• 5.33.0
• 5.33.1

Website

• Product: https://github.com/strapi/strapi/

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