Plex Media Server: Plex Media Server Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability
Info Listed in CISA KEV
Summary
Plex Media Server contains a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability which could allow an attacker using any X-Plex-Token value to include a full URL in the 'protocol' parameter and force the Plex server to POST to the attacker's chosen destination. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-96654, CVE-2026-96655, and CVE-2026-96656.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
- Plex:Media Server
Sources
- CISA KEV DATABASE
Original Links
- https://forums.plex.tv/t/important-security-update-for-plex-media-server-v1-43-2-and-earlier/942319 reference
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk reference
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk reference
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96652 reference
Timeline
- kev_ingest CISA KEV