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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-17823

The Configuration component of Piwigo 2.9.2 is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the admin/configuration.php order_by array parameter. An attacker can exploit this to gain access to the data in a connected MySQL database.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:56 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-17823

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Dec 2017, 04:29 UTC

The Configuration component of Piwigo 2.9.2 is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the admin/configuration.php order_by array parameter. An attacker can exploit this to gain access to the data in a connected MySQL database.

osv:CVE-2017-17823
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17823",
  "method": "structured",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:01.759946861Z",
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      "references": [
        "https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/commit/91ef7909a5c51203f330cbecf986472900b60983",
        "https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/826",
        "https://github.com/sahildhar/sahildhar.github.io/blob/master/research/reports/Piwigo_2.9.2/Multiple%20SQL%20Injection%20Vulnerabilities%20in%20Piwigo%202.9.2.md"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380425,
  "published_at": "2017-12-21T04:29:00.307+00:00"
}