diff --git a/src/Extractor.php b/src/Extractor.php
index 641968a9..4db64e89 100644
--- a/src/Extractor.php
+++ b/src/Extractor.php
@@ -253,7 +253,9 @@ public function resolveUri($uri): UriInterface
             if (!isHttp($uri)) {
                 throw new InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('Uri string must use http or https scheme (%s)', $uri));
             }
-
+            if (!isValidUrl($uri)) {
+                throw new InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('Access to this URL is blocked for security reasons (%s)', $uri));
+            }
             $uri = $this->crawler->createUri($uri);
         }
 
diff --git a/src/functions.php b/src/functions.php
index 9965ee63..94a0a1c0 100644
--- a/src/functions.php
+++ b/src/functions.php
@@ -73,14 +73,86 @@ function resolveUri(UriInterface $base, UriInterface $uri): UriInterface
         ->withFragment('');
 }
 
+/**
+ * Check if the DNS associated with the URL is valid (SSRF).
+ */
+function isValidUrl(string $url): bool
+{
+    // First, use standard PHP URL filtering.
+    if (!filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    $parts = parse_url($url);
+    $host = $parts['host'] ?? '';
+    // Normalize IPv6 literal formatting wrapping (e.g., [::1] -> ::1)
+    if (strpos($host, '[') === 0 && strpos($host, ']') === (strlen($host) - 1)) {
+        $host = substr($host, 1, -1);
+    }
+    // Collect all IPs the host resolves to.
+    $ips = [];
+    if (filter_var($host, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP)) {
+        // The host is already a direct IP address literal.
+        $ips[] = $host;
+    }
+    else {
+        // Resolve DNS records for both IPv4 (A) and IPv6 (AAAA).
+        $dnsA = @dns_get_record($host, DNS_A);
+        $dnsAAAA = @dns_get_record($host, DNS_AAAA);
+        if (is_array($dnsA)) {
+            foreach ($dnsA as $record) {
+                if (isset($record['ip'])) {
+                     $ips[] = $record['ip'];
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if (is_array($dnsAAAA)) {
+            foreach ($dnsAAAA as $record) {
+                if (isset($record['ipv6'])) {
+                    $ips[] = $record['ipv6'];
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        // Fallback. If dns_get_record fails but gethostbyname finds something.
+        if (empty($ips)) {
+            $fallbackIp = @gethostbyname($host);
+            if ($fallbackIp !== $host) {
+                $ips[] = $fallbackIp;
+            }
+            else {
+                // If DNS resolution fails, treat URL as invalid.
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    // 4. Validate resolved IPs against standard restricted ranges
+    foreach ($ips as $ip) {
+        // Check if the IP is valid and falls outside reserved/private scopes
+        // FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE: Blocks RFC1918 (10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16)
+        // FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE: Blocks Loopback (127.0.0.0/8, ::1)
+        // and Link-Local (169.254.0.0/16).
+        $isPublic = filter_var(
+            $ip,
+            FILTER_VALIDATE_IP,
+            FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE | FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE
+        );
+        if (!$isPublic) {
+            // The IP belongs to a restricted/private range.
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+    return true;
+}
+
 function isHttp(string $uri): bool
 {
     $result = preg_match('/^(\w+):/', $uri, $matches);
-    if ($result !== false && $result > 0) {
-        return in_array(strtolower($matches[1]), ['http', 'https'], true);
+    if ($result === 1) {
+        $scheme = strtolower($matches[1]);
+        return in_array($scheme, ['http', 'https'], true);
     }
 
-    return true;
+    // SECURE: Reject URIs without explicit http/https scheme
+    return false;
 }
 
 function resolvePath(string $base, string $path): string
diff --git a/tests/FunctionsTest.php b/tests/FunctionsTest.php
index bb5e959d..54cc433e 100644
--- a/tests/FunctionsTest.php
+++ b/tests/FunctionsTest.php
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@
 namespace Embed\Tests;
 
 use function Embed\isHttp;
+use function Embed\isValidUrl;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
 
+
 class FunctionsTest extends TestCase
 {
     public function urlsProvider(): array
@@ -16,11 +18,35 @@ public function urlsProvider(): array
             ['mailto:foo@example.com', false],
             ['tel:+1234567890', false],
             ['data:foo', false],
-            ['./foo', true],
-            ['/foo', true],
-            ['../foo', true],
-            ['foo.com', true],
-            ['//foo.com', true],
+            ['./foo', false],
+            ['/foo', false],
+            ['../foo', false],
+            ['foo.com', false],
+            ['//foo.com', false],
+            ['//internal.local/admin', false],
+        ];
+    }
+
+    public function invalidUrlsProvider(): array {
+        return [
+            ['https://169.254.0.0/SSRF_PATH', false],
+            ['https://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/', false],
+            ['https://127.0.0.1:9999/SSRF_PATH', false],
+            ['http://127.0.0.1:9999/SSRF_PATH', false],
+            ['https://10.0.0.0/SSRF_PATH', false],
+            ['https://172.16.0.0/SSRF_PATH', false],
+            ['https://192.168.0.0/SSRF_PATH', false],
+            ['http://localhost:8080/admin', false],
+            ['169.254.0.0/SSRF_PATH', false],
+            ['10.0.0.0/SSRF_PATH', false],
+            ['172.16.0.0/SSRF_PATH', false],
+            ['192.168.0.0/SSRF_PATH', false],
+            ['./foo', false],
+            ['/foo', false],
+            ['../foo', false],
+            ['foo.com', false],
+            ['https://foo.com', true],
+            ['https://example.com', true],
         ];
     }
 
@@ -32,4 +58,13 @@ public function testIsHttp(string $url, bool $expected)
         $result = isHttp($url);
         $this->assertSame($expected, $result);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider invalidUrlsProvider
+     */
+    public function testIsValidUrl(string $url, bool $expected)
+    {
+        $result = isValidUrl($url);
+        $this->assertSame($expected, $result);
+    }
 }