CVE-2026-18736 PUBLISHED

Shlink Server-Side Request Forgery via Short URL Title Auto-Resolution

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 03.08.2026 Published: 03.08.2026 Updated: 04.08.2026

Shlink contains a server-side request forgery vulnerability that allows authenticated API key holders to cause the server to issue arbitrary HTTP GET requests by supplying a crafted long URL during short URL creation with title auto-resolution enabled. Attackers can submit URLs pointing to public hosts that redirect to internal targets, including loopback addresses, link-local ranges, and cloud metadata endpoints such as 169.254.169.254, to exfiltrate internal service information via the HTML title element returned in the short URL creation response.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor shlinkio
Product Shlink
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 2.6.0 to 5.1.5 (incl.)

Credits

  • Theodosis Paidakis finder

References

Problem Types

  • Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) CWE