openises Tickets up to 3.44.1 POST Parameter tables.php sql injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in openises Tickets up to 3.44.1. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file tables.php of the component POST Parameter Handler. This manipulation causes sql injection. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-48231. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in openises Tickets up to 3.44.1. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the file tables.php of the component POST Parameter Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Open ISES Tickets before 3.44.2 contains a SQL injection vulnerability in tables.php where the multiple POST parameters (tablename, indexname, sortby) are concatenated into table/column identifiers in dynamically constructed SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE statements without sanitization. Authenticated attackers can craft requests that alter query semantics to read, modify, or destroy database contents.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-48231 since 05/21/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1505 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

By approaching the search of inurl:tables.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 3.44.2 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch ecfeb406a016766cae81c749e14b5145a9f2dbff is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-31311). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Ticket Tracking Software

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• openises

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• Tickets

Version

• 3.44.0
• 3.44.1

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/openises/tickets/

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