---
id: CVE-2026-61572
title: 'AVideo-Encoder: unauthenticated full-response server-side request forgery'
summary: >-
  AVideo is a video-sharing Platform. Before the initial remediation attempt in
  8.1.0, `url_get_contents` in `objects/functions.php` accepts caller-controlled
  destinations after only `FILTER_VALIDATE_URL` syntax validation, without
  rejecti…
severity: high
cvss: 8.6
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L'
cvssSource: cna
cwe:
  - CWE-918
vendor: WWBN
product: AVideo-Encoder
affected:
  - AVideo-Encoder < 8.1.0
ssvc:
  exploitation: poc
  automatable: 'yes'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-10-29T15:13:44.344017Z'
exploitAvailable: true
published: '2026-10-28'
updated: '2026-10-29'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-29T15:14:17.879Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-61572'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/security/advisories/GHSA-cvhm-j9cp-8w59
    label: >-
      https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/security/advisories/GHSA-cvhm-j9cp-8w59
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/commit/60430ee18f669798485e81276a1fb6d26b06eb9a
    label: >-
      https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/commit/60430ee18f669798485e81276a1fb6d26b06eb9a
  - url: 'https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/releases/tag/v8.1.0'
    label: 'https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/releases/tag/v8.1.0'
tags:
  - cve.org
  - exploit-available
epss: 0.00254
epssPercentile: 0.17004
ingestedAt: '2026-11-01T20:00:16.952Z'
---

## Overview

AVideo is a video-sharing Platform. Before the initial remediation attempt in 8.1.0, `url_get_contents` in `objects/functions.php` accepts caller-controlled destinations after only `FILTER_VALIDATE_URL` syntax validation, without rejecting private, loopback, or link-local addresses, and disables TLS peer verification. `Login::isLogged` reauthenticates using the attacker-settable `encoder_aVideoURL` cookie together with arbitrary nonempty `encoder_user` and `encoder_pass` cookies, and `Login::run` stores the raw fetched body in `result`. The unauthenticated `objects/login.json.php` endpoint returns that session object, enabling full-response exfiltration through a supplied `siteURL`; its `Streamer::isURLAllowed` gate allows all sites when the operator allowlist is empty, the default. An unauthenticated remote attacker can read internal HTTP and HTTPS responses, including cloud instance-metadata credentials, and reach internal TCP services. A further pre-authentication FTP variant in `view/youtubeDl.json.php` routes an ftp `videoURL` into `FTPDownloader`; `parseFtpUrl` in `objects/FTPDownloader.php` accepts its host and port for `ftp_connect`. This also enables requests to internal FTP services. Untrusted self-signed HTTPS certificates are accepted, and no account or operator interaction is required. Version 8.1.0 contains an initial remediation attempt that removes raw-response reflection and adds destination checks, but private-network exemptions and login TLS-verification defaults leave complete remediation of the described internal-network and TLS variants unresolved.

## Affected

- `AVideo-Encoder < 8.1.0`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.