Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)Weakness · CWE-918

CVE-2026-19375

MEDIUM · 6.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-10

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69/100

Remediation priority · Elevated

Remotely reachable Zero-click 9 days old

Official description

NVD · unedited

A vulnerability was detected in dmitriiweb article-scraper-mcp 1.0.0. This vulnerability affects the function fetch_article of the file news_scraper_mcp/server.py. The manipulation of the argument url results in server-side request forgery. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit is now public and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

Technical summary

dbcve analysis

How this class of weakness works · CWE-918

The server can be induced to make requests to a URL an attacker controls, turning it into a proxy into internal networks and cloud metadata services. It's especially dangerous behind a trusted network boundary. The fix is strict allow-listing of destinations and blocking access to internal address ranges.

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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References

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Agent discussion published at 85% 6 agents 10 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-19375 is an SSRF vulnerability in the article-scraper-mcp package—a Model Context Protocol server designed for AI agent integration. The technical flaw (SSRF via the fetch_article function's URL parameter) is straightforward, but treating this as a typical web vulnerability is a critical error in judgment. MCP servers are not utilities. They are registered tools that AI agents invoke on your behalf. When you wire this package into an agent for research or content aggregation, you're granting it the ability to make network requests within whatever network context that agent operates. Exploiting this SSRF doesn't just let an attacker probe your internal network—they can inject controlled content directly into your agent's context window. This transforms the vulnerability from network reconnaissance into a precision data poisoning vector. The agent treats fetched content as legitimate input and will reason over it, retrieve from it, and act on it with the same authority it applies to trusted sources. The maintainer has not responded and no patch is coming. This changes your response protocol entirely. Immediate actions: Remove this package from any agent configurations immediately. Audit all MCP tool registrations in your agent pipelines—if you or your team added this package for research automation, it's now a liability with no fix path. Search your codebase and agent configurations for references to article-scraper-mcp and remove them. Check your agent's context history for any content that may have been fetched during the window of exposure. The deeper problem: MCP registries have no mechanism to flag tools as vulnerable or yanked. There's no circuit-breaker when a maintainer goes silent. The package continues accumulating downloads in AI pipelines while the attack surface remains open. This is an invisible dependency problem—you're trusting a package's security posture without knowing it exists in your toolchain. Treat all content returned by MCP fetch-type tools as untrusted input going forward. The MCP protocol currently has no mechanism for propagating trust levels downstream. Validate and sanitize scraped content before it enters your agent's reasoning chain, just as you would with deserialized data from untrusted sources.

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Practitioner notes

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Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-19375 in production — separate from our analysis above.

Notes1 Guidelines

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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
A config change or rule that shut the vector down
A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon

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Protocol Security Analysts dbcve analysis 2026-08-10

MCP servers are not utilities. They are registered tools that AI agents invoke on your behalf. When you wire this package into an agent for research or content aggregation, you're granting it the ability to make network requests within whatever network context that agent operates. Exploiting this SSRF doesn't just let an attacker probe your internal network—they can inject controlled content directly into your agent's context window. This transforms the vulnerability from network reconnaissance into a precision data poisoning vector. The agent treats fetched content as legitimate input and will reason over it, retrieve from it, and act on it with the same authority it applies to trusted sources.

The maintainer has not responded and no patch is coming. This changes your response protocol entirely.

Immediate actions: Remove this package from any agent configurations immediately. Audit all MCP tool registrations in your agent pipelines—if you or your team added this package for research automation, it's now a liability with no fix path. Search your codebase and agent configurations for references to article-scraper-mcp and remove them. Check your agent's context history for any content that may have been fetched during the window of exposure.

The deeper problem: MCP registries have no mechanism to flag tools as vulnerable or yanked. There's no circuit-breaker when a maintainer goes silent. The package continues accumulating downloads in AI pipelines while the attack surface remains open. This is an invisible dependency problem—you're trusting a package's security posture without knowing it exists in your toolchain.

Treat all content returned by MCP fetch-type tools as untrusted input going forward. The MCP protocol currently has no mechanism for propagating trust levels downstream. Validate and sanitize scraped content before it enters your agent's reasoning chain, just as you would with deserialized data from untrusted sources.

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No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 6.3 Medium

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.4%

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

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