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GHSA-q5mq-6fjg-4mw8

CRITICAL

GHSA-q5mq-6fjg-4mw8 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in thinkjs. 1 public exploit reference exists, so weaponization risk is real. O3 Security confirms whether GHSA-q5mq-6fjg-4mw8 is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.

SQL Injection in thinkjs

Also known asCVE-2020-21176
Published
Nov 19, 2021
Updated
Nov 8, 2023
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
None yet
Exploits
1 known
Exploitation data as of Aug 23, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
1.5%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs72th percentile — riskier than 72% of all scored CVEsHighest risk

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.

How urgent is this, really

GHSA-q5mq-6fjg-4mw8 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 365,017 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

62other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
thinkjsnpm
1Kdownloads / week

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in the model.increment and model.decrement function in ThinkJS 3.2.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the step parameter.

Affected Packages

1 total
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmthinkjsall versionsNo fix
Exploits & PoCs
1

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for thinkjs. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.

  2. Remediation status

    No patched version of thinkjs has shipped for GHSA-q5mq-6fjg-4mw8 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

  4. How O3 protects you

    O3 pinpoints whether GHSA-q5mq-6fjg-4mw8 is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.

Tailored to GHSA-q5mq-6fjg-4mw8. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.

Frequently Asked Questions

SQL injection vulnerability in the model.increment and model.decrement function in ThinkJS 3.2.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the step parameter.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

Is GHSA-q5mq-6fjg-4mw8 in your dependencies?

O3 detects GHSA-q5mq-6fjg-4mw8 across npm dependencies and uses function-level reachability to confirm whether the vulnerable code path is actually reachable — not just present. No false positives.

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