CVE-2020-5257

In Administrate (rubygem) before version 0.13.0, when sorting by attributes on a dashboard, the direction parameter was not validated before being interpolated into the SQL query. This could present a SQL injection if the attacker were able to modify the `direction` parameter and bypass ActiveRecord SQL protections. Whilst this does have a high-impact, to exploit this you need access to the Administrate dashboards, which we would expect to be behind authentication. This is patched in wersion 0.13.0.

• CWE-943
• CWE-89

• https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/commit/3ab838b83c5f565fba50e0c6f66fe4517f98eed3Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/security/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833wThird Party Advisory
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/commit/3ab838b83c5f565fba50e0c6f66fe4517f98eed3Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/security/advisories/GHSA-2p5p-m353-833wThird Party Advisory

Published

Mar 13, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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