📄 SocialEngine 7.8.0 Server-Side Request Forgery_PACKETSTORM:219704

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    "description": "SocialEngine versions 7.8.0 and below suffer from a blind server-side request forgery vulnerability. User input passed through the uri request parameter to the /core/link/preview endpoint is not properly sanitized before being used as URL to send an...",
    "published": "2026-04-23T00:00:00",
    "modified": "2026-04-23T00:00:00",
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    "title": "\ud83d\udcc4 SocialEngine 7.8.0 Server-Side Request Forgery",
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    "id": "PACKETSTORM:219704",
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