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Plex Media Server Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability

Plex Media Server contains a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that could allow an authenticated user to request arbitrary internal or external addresses via the '/video/:/transcode/universal' path parameter. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-96652, CVE-2026-96654, and C

Key points

• CVE: CVE-2026-96655
• Added to CISA KEV: 2026-10-20
• Federal remediation due date in the KEV record: 2026-11-03
• Known ransomware campaign use: Unknown

What to do

Apply the vendor fix or mitigation for this CVE, or discontinue use of the affected product where no fix exists. The full required action text is in the primary source record below.

Sources and provenance

Primary source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Structured record, tier computed in code: auto (reliability 95). This staging page renders a draft record from the Sprint 1 ingest spike; it is not a published story.