# Sermon Browser <= 0.45.22 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery via Remote File Import

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1176
- **Plugin:** Sermon Browser (`sermon-browser`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/sermon-browser/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 0.46.0
- **Fixed in:** 0.46.0 (Update to 0.46.0 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-918
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions None seen (as of 2026-10-17)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/sermon-browser
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-13
- **Published:** 2026-10-17
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1176/

## Description

The sermon-browser plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery via the remote URL import on the Files page in all versions up to, and including, 0.45.22, due to the use of get_headers() and fopen() on a user-supplied URL with no restriction on internal hosts. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations from the web application, including internal services, and to save the responses to the publicly accessible upload directory.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1176/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/sermon-browser/tags/0.46.0/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/sermon-browser/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1176/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.