CVE-2026-44439 — playwrightcapture
Fix: Lookyloo/PlaywrightCapture@49e289eCVE-2026-44439 is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in playwrightcapture. A fix is available for playwrightcapture — see the affected versions and patch details below.
LookyLoo - PlaywrightCapture permits access to local files and internal network resources during page capture
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-44439.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
Real-World Exposure
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Description
Playwright Capture did not sufficiently restrict navigations and resource requests initiated by rendered pages. An attacker-controlled page could abuse browser-side redirection mechanisms, such as window.location.href, to make the capture process open file:// URLs or request resources hosted on private, loopback, link-local, or otherwise non-public IP addresses. In deployments where PlaywrightCapture processes untrusted URLs, this could allow a remote attacker to perform server-side request forgery against internal services or attempt to access local files from the capture environment. Depending on what capture artifacts are generated and exposed, responses from those resources could potentially be leaked through screenshots, saved page content, logs, or other capture outputs. The patch mitigates the issue by introducing request routing checks that block secondary requests to local files, non-global IP addresses, and .local domains when only_global_lookup is enabled, while still allowing the originally requested capture URL.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | playwrightcapture | all versions | 1.39.6pip install --upgrade 'playwrightcapture==1.39.6' |
Affected Products
playwright capturelookylooDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for playwrightcapture, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update playwrightcapture to 1.39.6 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2026-44439 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Restrict outbound requests from the affected component to an allowlist of hosts, block access to link-local and internal address ranges at the network layer, and require authentication on internal services so a forged request cannot reach them unauthenticated.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2026-44439 in your dependencies?
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