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CVE-2026-42180: Lemmy: SSRF in /api/v3/post via Webmention dispatch

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-08 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

Lemmy is a link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Prior to version 0.19.18, Lemmy allows an authenticated low-privileged user to create a link post through POST /api/v3/post. When a post is created in a public community, the backend asynchronously sends a Webmention to the attacker-controlled link target. The submitted URL is checked for syntax and scheme, but the audited code path does not reject loopback, private, or link-local destinations before the Webmention request is issued. This lets a normal user trigger server-side HTTP requests toward internal services. This issue has been patched in version 0.19.18.

Affected products

• LemmyNet lemmy: before 0.19.18

References

• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.19.18
• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/security/advisories/GHSA-3jvj-v6w2-h948
• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/security/advisories/GHSA-3jvj-v6w2-h948

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