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title: "Preventing SSRF in Laravel: Why Blocking Private IPs Fails"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/preventing-ssrf-in-laravel-why-blocking-private-ips-fails-xpdzp3fxe
source_url: https://freek.dev/3167-preventing-ssrf-in-laravel-why-blocking-private-ips-fails
type: article
source: "FREEK.DEV"
published: 2026-07-22T13:25:56.823Z
updated: 2026-07-22T13:26:13.254Z
tags: ["security", "php", "laravel"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
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# Preventing SSRF in Laravel: Why Blocking Private IPs Fails

**[FREEK.DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/freek)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A new Laravel package for preventing Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks addresses the common but flawed approach of simply blocking private IP ranges. The package is built on comprehensive research from a USENIX Security 2024 paper and is available on GitHub at securized/laravel-ssrf.

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