CVE-2026-39670
MediumCVSS 6.0Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs
Summary
A Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the Visual Link Preview plugin allows sending requests from the server to internal resources. The issue affects versions up to and including 2.3.0.
Risk Assessment
An attacker could use the server to scan internal networks, access sensitive data, or launch attacks against other systems.
Recommendation
Update the Visual Link Preview plugin to the latest version that includes restrictions on outgoing requests.
Other vulnerabilities in Visual Link Preview
See all- CVE-2026-48878Medium
There is a vulnerability in versions of Visual Link Preview up to 2.4.1 that exposes sensitive subscriber data.
- CVE-2025-11987Medium
The Visual Link Preview plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's visual-link-preview shortcode in versions up to and including 2.2.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Original NVD description (English source)
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Brecht Visual Link Preview visual-link-preview allows Server Side Request Forgery.This issue affects Visual Link Preview: from n/a through <= 2.3.0.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS