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Authenticated PostHog users vulnerable to SSRF

Type: advisorySources: OSV

PostHog provides open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host. A server-side request forgery (SSRF), which can only be exploited by authenticated users, was found in Posthog. Posthog did not verify whether a URL was local when enabling webhooks, allowing authenticated users to forge a POST request. This vulnerability has been addressed in `22bd5942` and will be included in subsequent releases. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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CVEs
CVE-2023-46746
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4 Nov 2026, 15:31 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Authenticated PostHog users vulnerable to SSRF

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Dec 2023, 21:53 UTC

PostHog provides open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host. A server-side request forgery (SSRF), which can only be exploited by authenticated users, was found in Posthog. Posthog did not verify whether a URL was local when enabling webhooks, allowing authenticated users to forge a POST request. This vulnerability has been addressed in `22bd5942` and will be included in subsequent releases. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

osv:CVE-2023-46746
Complete source record
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