diff --git a/backend/src/services/websiteAnalysisService.ts b/backend/src/services/websiteAnalysisService.ts
index eac6f5f7c..ded51e433 100644
--- a/backend/src/services/websiteAnalysisService.ts
+++ b/backend/src/services/websiteAnalysisService.ts
@@ -87,14 +87,40 @@ class WebsiteAnalysisService {
 
   private async fetchWebsite(url: string): Promise<string> {
     try {
-      const response = await axios.get(url, {
-        timeout: 10000,
-        headers: {
-          'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36'
-        },
-        maxRedirects: 5
-      });
-      return response.data;
+      let currentUrl = url;
+      let response;
+      const MAX_REDIRECTS = 5;
+
+      for (let i = 0; i <= MAX_REDIRECTS; i++) {
+        // 🛡️ Security: Validate against SSRF before every request (including redirects)
+        await validateWebUrl(currentUrl);
+
+        response = await axios.get(currentUrl, {
+          timeout: 10000,
+          headers: {
+            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36'
+          },
+          maxRedirects: 0, // 🛡️ Security: Disable automatic redirects to prevent SSRF
+          validateStatus: (status) => status >= 200 && status < 400
+        });
+
+        // Check for redirect
+        if (response.status >= 300 && response.status < 400 && response.headers.location) {
+          const location = response.headers.location;
+          // Handle relative URLs
+          currentUrl = new URL(location, currentUrl).toString();
+
+          if (i === MAX_REDIRECTS) {
+            throw new Error('Too many redirects');
+          }
+          continue;
+        }
+
+        // Success
+        return response.data;
+      }
+
+      throw new Error('Too many redirects');
     } catch (error: any) {
       if (error.code === 'ENOTFOUND') {
         throw new Error('Website not found');
@@ -102,6 +128,9 @@ class WebsiteAnalysisService {
       if (error.code === 'ETIMEDOUT') {
         throw new Error('Website timeout');
       }
+      if (error.message.includes('SSRF')) {
+        throw error;
+      }
       throw new Error(`Failed to fetch website: ${error.message}`);
     }
   }
diff --git a/backend/tests/websiteAnalysisService.security.test.ts b/backend/tests/websiteAnalysisService.security.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8b333c570
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/tests/websiteAnalysisService.security.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+
+import { jest } from '@jest/globals';
+import axios from 'axios';
+
+// Set dummy API key for the service constructor
+process.env.GOOGLE_AI_API_KEY = 'dummy_key';
+
+// Mock dependencies
+jest.mock('axios');
+jest.mock('../src/utils/ssrf-filter.js', () => ({
+  validateWebUrl: jest.fn().mockImplementation(async (url: string) => {
+    // Simulate SSRF check logic locally for the test
+    if (url.includes('127.0.0.1') || url.includes('localhost') || url.includes('private')) {
+      throw new Error('SSRF Blocked');
+    }
+    return Promise.resolve();
+  }),
+}));
+
+jest.mock('@google/genai', () => ({
+  GoogleGenAI: jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => ({
+    models: {
+      generateContent: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({
+        text: JSON.stringify({})
+      })
+    }
+  }))
+}));
+
+// Import the service after mocks are set up
+// Note: We need to use dynamic import or require because of hoisting if we were using purely ESM,
+// but Jest mocks usually hoist. However, since the service is a singleton instance exported,
+// we rely on the modules being evaluated after mocks.
+import { websiteAnalysisService } from '../src/services/websiteAnalysisService';
+import { validateWebUrl } from '../src/utils/ssrf-filter';
+
+describe('WebsiteAnalysisService Security', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    jest.clearAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  it('should throw SSRF error when redirecting to a private IP', async () => {
+    const initialUrl = 'http://example.com/safe';
+    const redirectUrl = 'http://127.0.0.1/unsafe';
+
+    // Mock axios to return a 302 Redirect to a private IP
+    // With the FIX, the service should handle this manually, see the location, and call validateWebUrl
+    // Without the FIX, axios (mocked) would just return the 302 response (since we aren't simulating axios redirect logic here),
+    // and the service would proceed to extract metadata from the "redirect body", ignoring the security risk of the location.
+    // However, to truly test that validation IS called on the redirect, we check the calls to validateWebUrl.
+
+    // We want to verify that logic flows:
+    // 1. fetch(initial) -> 302
+    // 2. check(redirectUrl) -> THROWS
+
+    // If the service relies on axios following redirects, it would call:
+    // fetch(initial) -> and expect axios to return final content.
+    // Since we mock axios.get, we can't easily simulate "axios follows redirect and then we validate".
+    // BUT, we are implementing "Manual Redirect Handling".
+    // So we expect the service to see the 302, and explicitly verify the new URL.
+
+    (axios.get as jest.Mock).mockImplementation(async (url: string, config: any) => {
+      if (url === initialUrl) {
+         // Verify that we are disabling redirects in axios
+         // Use a small delay or check strictly if needed, but for now just return the redirect
+         return {
+           status: 302,
+           headers: { location: redirectUrl },
+           data: 'Redirecting...',
+           config
+         };
+      }
+      if (url === redirectUrl) {
+        return {
+          status: 200,
+          data: '<html><body>Secret</body></html>',
+          config
+        };
+      }
+      return { status: 404 };
+    });
+
+    // We expect the operation to fail because validateWebUrl throws on '127.0.0.1'
+    await expect(websiteAnalysisService.analyze(initialUrl))
+      .rejects
+      .toThrow('SSRF Blocked');
+
+    // Verify validateWebUrl was called with the redirect URL
+    expect(validateWebUrl).toHaveBeenCalledWith(redirectUrl);
+  });
+
+  it('should configure axios to not follow redirects automatically', async () => {
+    const initialUrl = 'http://example.com/redirect';
+
+    (axios.get as jest.Mock).mockResolvedValue({
+      status: 200,
+      data: '<html></html>',
+    });
+
+    try {
+      await websiteAnalysisService.analyze(initialUrl);
+    } catch (e) {}
+
+    const calls = (axios.get as jest.Mock).mock.calls;
+    expect(calls.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    const config = calls[0][1];
+    expect(config).toHaveProperty('maxRedirects', 0);
+  });
+});