CVE-2026-40522
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedFrontAccounting before 2.4.20 contains a SQL injection vulnerability in the Bank Statement report handler that allows authenticated attackers to extract arbitrary database data by injecting UNION SELECT payloads into the PARAM_0 POST parameter. Attackers can supply malicious SQL syntax through the unparameterized WHERE clause to retrieve sensitive information including usernames, password hashes, and email addresses from the users table, rendered into PDF report output.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysisUser input is woven into a database query, letting an attacker rewrite the query's logic. From there they can read, alter, or destroy data — frequently the entire database. The reliable fix is parameterised queries (prepared statements), so input is always treated as data and never as SQL.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scopedFrontAccounting 2.4.20
- 1. Backup your FrontAccounting database and files before making any changes.
- 2. Download FrontAccounting version 2.4.20 or later from the official repository at https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FA/releases
- 3. Extract the new version files to replace your existing installation, preserving your config.php file and any custom modules.
- 4. Verify the patch was applied by checking that the Bank Statement report handler (typically in reporting/reports/*.php) now uses parameterized queries for the PARAM_0 parameter.
- 5. Test the Bank Statement report functionality to ensure it works correctly with the fix.
- 6. Verify that the SQL injection vulnerability is resolved by attempting a UNION SELECT payload in the PARAM_0 parameter - it should no longer execute arbitrary SQL.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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