# CVE-2026-59962: Tandoor Recipes: ORM ORDER BY Injection via FK Traversal in Tandoor Recipes

> Authenticated attackers can inject SQL via ORM ordering fields to infer sensitive user data like password hashes and emails.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 28 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4x57-2q4q-xwpp

## What is CVE-2026-59962?

CVE-2026-59962 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in TandoorRecipes recipes, published on 16 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Tandoor Recipes is an application for managing recipes, planning meals, and building shopping lists. Prior to 2.6.10, passes unvalidated sort_order and order_field strings into Django ORM order_by() calls when an authenticated user supplies foreign-key traversal paths in recipe search, RecipeBook, or stored CustomFilter ordering values. Request processing uses _finalize_ordering and order_by through 8080/api/recipe/ and 8080/api/recipe-book/. The attack works because Django interprets double-underscore ordering fields as related-table traversal, and observable result ordering leaks values from related User fields. This can infer password hashes, email addresses, administrator status, and other related database values. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.10.

Weakness: CWE-943 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-59962?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-59962?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-59962 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-59962 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-59962 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-59962 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-59962 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in TandoorRecipes recipes, published on 16 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-59962 exists.

Affected product: TandoorRecipes recipes. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-59962/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-59962/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-59962
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59962
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-59962

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-59962/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.