CVE-2026-52769 affects YesWiki, a PHP-based wiki system, in versions 4.6.2 through 4.6.5. The vulnerability exists in the publicly accessible POST /api/forms/{formId}/actor/inbox route, which accepts HTTP Signature headers. The HttpSignatureService::verifySignature() method blindly performs a server-side HTTP GET request to the URL specified in the keyId parameter without any prior cryptographic verification or URL validation. This allows unauthenticated attackers to exploit the server as a proxy to reach internal services, cloud metadata endpoints such as 169.254.169.254, and intranet-only admin panels. Attackers can leverage timing and error-message oracles to perform port scanning and service enumeration, and on cloud instances, access IAM metadata. The vulnerability is exploitable when ActivityPub is enabled on at least one Bazar form. A patch has been released in version 4.6.6.
169.254.169.254