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Plain-English summary
CVE-2026-56281 is a SQL injection flaw in Capgo’s admin statistics endpoint. It affects Capgo versions before 12.128.2. The attacker needs platform admin credentials, which limits broad exposure, but successful abuse could expose analytics data or disrupt the analytics backend.
Executive priority
Treat as a near-term fix for affected Capgo deployments, especially where admin access is broadly assigned. The privilege requirement lowers urgency versus unauthenticated flaws, but analytics data exposure and service disruption remain credible business risks.
Technical view
The POST /private/admin_stats endpoint destructures an unvalidated limit value from the request body and interpolates it into Cloudflare Analytics Engine SQL queries using template literals. This is CWE-89 SQL injection. Reported impacts include schema enumeration, analytics data extraction, and denial-of-service against the analytics backend.
Likely exposure
Exposure is mainly for organizations running Capgo before 12.128.2 where platform admin accounts can access the private admin statistics endpoint. The vulnerability requires high privileges and network access to the application.
Exploitation context
The provided sources do not report active exploitation, and the CVE is not marked as CISA KEV. Exploitation requires platform admin credentials, reducing opportunistic risk but increasing concern if admin accounts are shared, compromised, or weakly governed.
Researcher notes
Evidence is limited to the CVE, GitHub advisory, and VulnCheck advisory. No public exploit status is cited. Validate behavior defensively through code review, version checks, and log analysis rather than live injection testing in production.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Capgo to version 12.128.2 or later.
- Review vendor advisory guidance for any additional remediation instructions.
- Restrict and monitor platform admin account access.
- Rotate or review admin credentials if suspicious activity is found.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Capgo deployments and confirm their running versions.
- Confirm whether /private/admin_stats is reachable only by authorized admins.
- Review logs for unusual admin_stats requests or abnormal limit values.
- Verify upgrade completion to 12.128.2 or later.
Public sources used
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- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.1 (4.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N——VulnCheckCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L1.22.5VulnCheckVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 4.0 score
5.1MediumVector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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3.8LowVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-6ffx-8hjj-jhhf)CVE reference, VulnCheck · vendor-advisory
- VulnCheck Advisory: Capgo - SQL Injection via Unvalidated limit Parameter in Admin Stats EndpointCVE reference, VulnCheck · third-party-advisory
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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.