# CVE-2026-42647: JoomSport - SQLi

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Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2026-42647

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.3
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Beardev JoomSport
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection'))
- **Tags:** cms

## Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in Beardev JoomSport allows Blind SQL Injection.

This issue affects JoomSport <= 5.7.7.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2026-42647](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2026-42647) is a critical SQL injection vulnerability in Beardev JoomSport versions up to 5.7.7, allowing attackers to perform blind SQL injection attacks. Exploiting this flaw could enable remote, unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data from the database or manipulate backend queries, posing a significant risk to data confidentiality and application integrity.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 1st of July 2026.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2026-42647 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers exploit the JoomSport plugin by sending crafted requests to player list endpoints with a malicious `sortf` parameter, such as `/.../playerlist&sortf=post_title%60,(SELECT/**/x/**/FROM/**/(SELECT/**/SLEEP(6)/**/AS/**/x)/**/AS/**/t)%23`, to trigger unauthenticated time-based blind SQL injection. This targets URLs containing `action=playerlist` and manipulates the `sortf` parameter to execute arbitrary SQL code.

## Timeline

- 2026-06-11: CVE Published. CVE-2026-42647 is published to NVD.
- 2026-07-01: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2026-42647 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.

## References

- https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/vulnerability/wordpress-joomsport-plugin-5-7-7-sql-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-42647.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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