CVE-2026-0686 PUBLISHED

Webmention <= 5.6.2 - Unauthenticated Blind Server-Side Request Forgery

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 07.01.2026 Published: 02.04.2026 Updated: 02.04.2026

The Webmention plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.2 in the 'MF2::parse_authorpage' function via the 'Receiver::post' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.2

Product Status

Vendor pfefferle
Product Webmention
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 5.6.2 (incl.)

Credits

  • Duong Quang Hao finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) CWE