As you can see the query is indeed different on the latest, if you have thiss erro you've a very very old one.
hal9000:ea dmuey$ grep 'ORDER BY' mod_sec/modsecparse.pl mod_sec/addon_modsec.cgi
mod_sec/addon_modsec.cgi: $querystmnt = "$table LIKE '$search' ORDER BY '$sort' $order LIMIT $lower,$upper";
mod_sec/addon_modsec.cgi: # $querystmnt = q{1 ORDER BY 'id' DESC LIMIT 0,30};
mod_sec/addon_modsec.cgi: $querystmnt = q{1 ORDER BY date DESC, id DESC LIMIT 0,30};
hal9000:ea dmuey$ md5 mod_sec/addon_modsec.cgi
MD5 (mod_sec/addon_modsec.cgi) = 1f1e8615ea28ae7d8cd60b9c0b79eae9
hal9000:ea dmuey$