Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Unauthenticated remote SSRF (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); server-side coercion crosses into other systems (S:C) with partial read/write influence (C:L/I:L), no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
Unauthenticated Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in 3D Flipbook PDF Viewer & Embedder <= 1.4.2 versions.
AnalysisAI
Unauthenticated server-side request forgery in the WordPress plugin '3D Flipbook PDF Viewer & Embedder' affects all versions up to and including 1.4.2, allowing any remote attacker to make the victim site's web server issue outbound HTTP requests to destinations of the attacker's choosing. Exploitation requires only that the plugin be installed and active and that its PDF-fetch/embed endpoint be reachable over the network; the CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N vector (7.2) confirms no credentials and no user interaction are needed, and the changed scope (S:C) reflects that the impact can extend to systems beyond the vulnerable plugin. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, CISA KEV does not list this CVE, SSVC reports Exploitation: none, and EPSS is low at 0.19% (9th percentile), so the practical risk is moderate and driven mainly by the value of internal services or cloud metadata endpoints reachable from the WordPress host.
Technical ContextAI
The flaw is a CWE-918 server-side request forgery rooted in the WordPress plugin's PDF fetching/embedding functionality, which accepts a caller-supplied resource location and causes the server itself to perform the request without adequately validating or restricting the destination. Because the request originates from the WordPress host, it can be aimed at internal-only resources that are otherwise unreachable from the internet, such as loopback services, RFC1918 addresses, or the cloud instance metadata endpoint at 169.254.169.254. The CPE string cpe:2.3:a:shahadat_hossain:3d_flipbook_pdf_viewer_&_embedder confirms the affected component is the plugin maintained under the shahadat_hossain namespace within the WordPress ecosystem, and the SSRF class explains why the CVSS vector scores scope as changed (S:C) while confidentiality and integrity remain low (C:L/I:L): the plugin's own security boundary is not breached, but the server may be coerced into reading or acting on third-party resources. SSVC classifies the issue as automatable with partial technical impact, while the Patchstack attribution and ENISA EUVD record (EUVD-2026-49221) corroborate that this is a WordPress plugin-layer issue rather than a core or hosting-stack defect.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch has been identified at time of analysis, so until a fixed release appears the most reliable action is to deactivate and, if it is not business-critical, remove the '3D Flipbook PDF Viewer & Embedder' plugin from any WordPress site that does not strictly need it; the trade-off is loss of the PDF flipbook/embedding feature. If the plugin must remain active, apply network-layer compensating controls: enforce outbound egress filtering on the WordPress host so the web server can only reach approved external destinations, explicitly block requests to link-local and internal ranges (169.254.169.254, 127.0.0.0/8, and RFC1918 space), and where the site runs on AWS migrate to or enforce IMDSv2 to defeat metadata theft via SSRF; the trade-off is that overly strict egress rules can break legitimate plugin fetches and other integrations, so allowlisting rather than blanket blocking is preferable. Deploying WAF or reverse-proxy rules that inspect and reject user-supplied URL parameters passed to the plugin's PDF-fetch endpoint reduces exposure but is bypassable and should be treated as a secondary layer. Monitor web server and proxy logs for anomalous outbound requests originating from the WordPress process, and track the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/pdf-embed-viewer/vulnerability/wordpress-3d-flipbook-pdf-viewer-embedder-plugin-1-4-2-server-side-request-forgery-ssrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve and the NVD entry at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59552 for a confirmable fixed version before re-enabling the plugin.
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External POC / Exploit Code
Leaving vuln.today
EUVD-2026-49221
GHSA-xmhc-7qj6-cr9q