CVE-2026-43897 (GCVE-0-2026-43897)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-11 21:14
Modified
2026-05-12 16:40
Severity ?
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Summary
Link Preview JS extracts web links information. Prior to 4.0.1, the library did not check for IPv6 loopback attacks. There was also a DNS attack, where an address could be resolved into an internal IP. This could cause internal data leaks. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.1.
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Vendor Product Version
OP-Engineering link-preview-js Version: < 4.0.1
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