CVE-2026-8661

medium

Description

Server-Side Request Forgery in the markdown_to_pdf action of Rapid7 InsightConnect Markdown Plugin on Linux in versions prior to 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to make arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via unsanitized resource-loading HTML elements (img/src, CSS url(), @import) embedded in Markdown input. The initial fix in 4.0.0 disabled JavaScript but did not neutralize resource-loading vectors. Resolved in 4.0.2 by sanitizing HTML with an allowlist of tags, attributes, and URL schemes.

References

https://github.com/rapid7/insightconnect-plugins/pull/4010

https://github.com/rapid7/insightconnect-plugins/pull/3721

https://github.com/rapid7/insightconnect-plugins/blob/master/plugins/markdown/help.md

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-26

Updated: 2026-07-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00254