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Jacob Walls 90f5b10784 [4.2.x] Fixed CVE-2026-1312 -- Protected order_by() from SQL injection via aliases with periods.
Before, `order_by()` treated a period in a field name as a sign that it
was requested via `.extra(order_by=...)` and thus should be passed
through as raw table and column names, even if `extra()` was not used.
Since periods are permitted in aliases, this meant user-controlled
aliases could force the `order_by()` clause to resolve to a raw table
and column pair instead of the actual target field for the alias.

In practice, only `FilteredRelation` was affected, as the other
expressions we tested, e.g. `F`, aggressively optimize away the ordering
expressions into ordinal positions, e.g. ORDER BY 2, instead of ORDER BY
"table".column.

Thanks Solomon Kebede for the report, and Simon Charette and Jake Howard
for reviews.

Backport of 69065ca869 from main.
2026-02-03 08:26:22 -05:00
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The documentation in this tree is in plain text files and can be viewed using
any text file viewer.

It uses `ReST`_ (reStructuredText), and the `Sphinx`_ documentation system.
This allows it to be built into other forms for easier viewing and browsing.

To create an HTML version of the docs:

* Install Sphinx (using ``python -m pip install Sphinx`` or some other method).

* In this docs/ directory, type ``make html`` (or ``make.bat html`` on
  Windows) at a shell prompt.

The documentation in ``_build/html/index.html`` can then be viewed in a web
browser.

.. _ReST: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html
.. _Sphinx: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/