Link Library < 7.9.6 - Unauthenticated SSRF via Reciprocal Link Validation

Description

The Link Library WordPress plugin before 7.9.6 does not validate the destination of a user-supplied URL before falling back to an unprotected fetch when its safe request is rejected, allowing unauthenticated visitors to make the site issue requests to hosts on its internal network and to learn from the response whether an internal service answered. Versions below 7.8.8 are covered by CVE-2025-68600; this entry covers 7.8.8 through 7.9.5, where that fix was incomplete. Exploitation requires the site owner to have published the Link Library WordPress plugin before 7.9.6's public link submission form with reciprocal-link validation enabled.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.16% · top 95% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.

Weakness

• CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
• CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-918 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Unknown · Link Library

  • affected 7.8.8 – < 7.9.6

References (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7842ef44-582c-40a8-8f3c-cf8abebaf7fb/ (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2026-78397](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2026-78397.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2026-78397)

Record last updated 25 Sept 2026, 12:40 UTC.