openises Tickets up to 3.44.1 SELECT Statement list_requests.php sort/dir sql injection

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in openises Tickets up to 3.44.1. This affects an unknown part of the file portal/ajax/list_requests.php of the component SELECT Statement Handler. Such manipulation of the argument sort/dir leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-48234. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in openises Tickets up to 3.44.1. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file portal/ajax/list_requests.php of the component SELECT Statement Handler. The manipulation of the argument sort/dir 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:

Open ISES Tickets before 3.44.2 contains a SQL injection vulnerability in portal/ajax/list_requests.php where the sort and dir GET parameters are concatenated into the ORDER BY clause of a SELECT statement without sanitization. Authenticated attackers can craft requests that alter query semantics to read, modify, or destroy database contents.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-48234 since 05/21/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1505.

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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.

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• Ticket Tracking Software

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• openises

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• Tickets

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• 3.44.0
• 3.44.1

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• open-source

Website

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

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