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A vulnerability was determined in SourceCodester SEO Meta Tag Extractor 1.0. This vulnerability affects the function get_headers of the file /index.php. This manipulation of the argument url causes server-side request forgery. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized.
AnalysisAI
Server-side request forgery in SourceCodester SEO Meta Tag Extractor 1.0 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to coerce the application into making arbitrary outbound HTTP requests by manipulating the 'url' parameter passed to the get_headers() function in /index.php. Publicly available exploit code exists per VulDB, increasing the likelihood of opportunistic abuse against exposed instances, though no active exploitation has been confirmed via CISA KEV.
Technical ContextAI
SEO Meta Tag Extractor is a small PHP web application distributed by SourceCodester that retrieves and parses HTML meta tags from a user-supplied URL. The vulnerability sits in /index.php where user input from the 'url' parameter is passed directly into PHP's get_headers() function without validation of the scheme, host, or destination. This is a textbook CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery) condition: the server, not the attacker's browser, performs the outbound request, allowing it to reach internal hosts, cloud metadata endpoints (e.g., 169.254.169.254), loopback services, or other resources the attacker could not contact directly.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; SourceCodester projects of this type are commonly distributed as one-off code samples without an ongoing maintenance stream. Operators should either remove the application from internet-facing infrastructure or apply manual code fixes in /index.php by validating the user-supplied 'url' parameter against an allowlist of expected schemes (http, https only) and resolving the hostname to verify it is a public, non-internal IP before calling get_headers(), rejecting RFC1918 ranges, 127.0.0.0/8, 169.254.0.0/16, and IPv6 link-local equivalents. As a network-level compensating control, place the host behind an egress proxy that blocks outbound traffic to internal CIDRs and cloud metadata endpoints - this prevents the most damaging SSRF pivots at the cost of breaking any legitimate internal callouts the app might rely on. Further details are tracked at https://vuldb.com/vuln/367580 and the public PoC is at https://hackmd.io/@Kq4PsjnpQ5WfoMt8ho48LA/By9GXDkyGe.
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EUVD-2026-33758
GHSA-877v-m842-xq9p