diff --git a/internal/validators/endpoint.go b/internal/validators/endpoint.go
index 037aeac0..329fe01a 100644
--- a/internal/validators/endpoint.go
+++ b/internal/validators/endpoint.go
@@ -65,8 +65,20 @@ func isPrivateIP(ip net.IP) bool {
 		{parseCIDR("192.0.2.0/24")},    // TEST-NET-1
 		{parseCIDR("198.51.100.0/24")}, // TEST-NET-2
 		{parseCIDR("203.0.113.0/24")},  // TEST-NET-3
-		{parseCIDR("224.0.0.0/4")},     // multicast
-		{parseCIDR("240.0.0.0/4")},     // reserved
+		// The two below sat in the same IANA special-purpose registry as every
+		// range above and were the only members of it still reachable. All three
+		// TEST-NETs were blocked while these were not, which was an oversight
+		// rather than a decision.
+		//
+		// 198.18.0.0/15 is the one that mattered: it is not globally routable, so
+		// organisations use it internally EXACTLY BECAUSE it looks public — as a
+		// lab range, or to number a network they do not want colliding with RFC
+		// 1918. An SSRF there reaches a real internal service, and reaches it via
+		// an address every "is this private?" intuition says is fine.
+		{parseCIDR("198.18.0.0/15")},  // RFC 2544 benchmarking
+		{parseCIDR("192.88.99.0/24")}, // 6to4 relay anycast (deprecated, RFC 7526)
+		{parseCIDR("224.0.0.0/4")},    // multicast
+		{parseCIDR("240.0.0.0/4")},    // reserved
 		// IPv6 transition mechanisms EMBED an arbitrary IPv4 address inside an
 		// IPv6 one, so a v6 literal in these ranges reaches a v4 destination
 		// that every check above would have refused — 2002:7f00:0001:: is
diff --git a/internal/validators/safe_http_test.go b/internal/validators/safe_http_test.go
index b906fdc0..ea0b4fa6 100644
--- a/internal/validators/safe_http_test.go
+++ b/internal/validators/safe_http_test.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -44,3 +45,57 @@ func TestSafeHTTPClientAllowPrivate_AllowsPrivateIP(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, "ok", string(body))
 }
+
+// TestSafeHTTPClient_RejectsEverySpecialPurposeRange walks the IANA
+// special-purpose ranges as a table, so the block list is asserted as a SET
+// rather than through whichever range a given test happened to pick.
+//
+// It exists because two of these were missing and nothing noticed: all three
+// TEST-NETs were blocked while 198.18.0.0/15 and 192.88.99.0/24 — from the same
+// registry, equally non-routable — were reachable. A per-range table makes the
+// next omission visible as a missing row instead of an absence of evidence.
+//
+// 198.18.0.0/15 is the one with real exposure. Not being globally routable is
+// exactly why organisations use it internally — as a lab range, or to number a
+// network they do not want colliding with RFC 1918 — so an SSRF there reaches a
+// live internal service via an address that reads as public.
+func TestSafeHTTPClient_RejectsEverySpecialPurposeRange(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct{ ip, why string }{
+		{"10.1.2.3", "RFC 1918"},
+		{"172.16.5.5", "RFC 1918"},
+		{"192.168.1.1", "RFC 1918"},
+		{"127.0.0.1", "loopback"},
+		{"169.254.169.254", "link-local / cloud metadata"},
+		{"100.64.1.1", "CGNAT"},
+		{"0.0.0.5", "this network"},
+		{"192.0.0.5", "IETF protocol assignments"},
+		{"192.0.2.5", "TEST-NET-1"},
+		{"198.51.100.5", "TEST-NET-2"},
+		{"203.0.113.5", "TEST-NET-3"},
+		{"198.18.0.5", "RFC 2544 benchmarking"},
+		{"198.19.255.5", "RFC 2544 benchmarking, upper half of the /15"},
+		{"192.88.99.5", "6to4 relay anycast (RFC 7526)"},
+		{"224.0.0.5", "multicast"},
+		{"240.0.0.5", "reserved"},
+		{"::1", "IPv6 loopback"},
+		{"fc00::5", "IPv6 ULA"},
+		{"fe80::5", "IPv6 link-local"},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.ip, func(t *testing.T) {
+			_, err := SafeHTTPClient(context.Background(), "https://"+hostFor(tc.ip)+"/x", time.Second)
+			require.Error(t, err, "%s (%s) must be refused", tc.ip, tc.why)
+			assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "private/internal networks are not allowed",
+				"%s (%s) must be refused by the range check, not by a DNS or TLS failure "+
+					"that would mask a missing range", tc.ip, tc.why)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// hostFor brackets IPv6 literals for use in a URL authority.
+func hostFor(ip string) string {
+	if strings.Contains(ip, ":") {
+		return "[" + ip + "]"
+	}
+	return ip
+}