CVE-2020-5257: Thoughtbot Administrate

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Thoughtbot Administrate: before 0.13.0 (fixed in 0.13.0)

Published 2020-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.