CVE-2024-52588 — @strapi/admin
MEDIUMCVE-2024-52588 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.9) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in @strapi/admin. A fix is available for @strapi/admin — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Strapi allows Server-Side Request Forgery in Webhook function
Exploitation Status
Proof-of-concept exploit code exists
- CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-52588.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-52588 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 378,156 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.
@strapi/adminnpmDescription
Description
In Strapi latest version, at function Settings -> Webhooks, the application allows us to input a URL in order to create a Webook connection. However, we can input into this field the local domains such as localhost, 127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0,.... in order to make the Application fetching into the internal itself, which causes the vulnerability Server - Side Request Forgery (SSRF).
Payloads
http://127.0.0.1:80->The Port is not openhttp://127.0.0.1:1337->The Port which Strapi is running on
Steps to Reproduce
- First of all, let's input the URL
http://127.0.0.1:80into theURLfield, and click "Save".
- Next, use the "Trigger" function and use Burp Suite to capture the request / response
- The server return
request to http://127.0.0.1/ failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:80, BECAUSE thePort 80is not open, since we are running Strapi onPort 1337, let's change the URL we input above intohttp://127.0.0.1:1337
- Continue to click the "Trigger" function, use Burp to capture the request / response
- The server returns
Method Not Allowed, which means that there actually is aPort 1337running the machine.
PoC
Here is the Poc Video, please check:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EvVp9lMpYnGLmUyr16gQ_2RetI-GqYjV/view?usp=sharing
Impact
- If there is a real server running Strapi with many ports open, by using this SSRF vulnerability, the attacker can brute-force through all 65535 ports to know what ports are open.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | @strapi/admin | all versions | 4.25.2npm install @strapi/admin@4.25.2 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for @strapi/admin, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update @strapi/admin to 4.25.2 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-52588 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2024-52588 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2024-52588. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-52588 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2024-52588 across npm dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.