diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index db53af9..b8555c5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+- **SSRF outbound HTTP detection**: updated `needle` regex in `surface.py` to allow methods such as `needle.get(url)`, catching previously missed NodeGoat SSRF vulnerability.
+
 ### Added
 
 - **No-Row-Level-Security detection** (`missing-rls` class, in `schemas.py` + the ledger) — committed
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 87b6666..9329e53 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ upload, cross-tenant BOLA, role/authz gaps).
 ## Tests
 
 ```bash
-python3 -m unittest discover -s tests    # stdlib only, no Noir/network — 324 tests
+python3 -m unittest discover -s tests    # stdlib only, no Noir/network — 342 tests
 ```
 
 ## Releasing (maintainer)
diff --git a/docs-canonical/ENVIRONMENT.md b/docs-canonical/ENVIRONMENT.md
index 857b672..66224cd 100644
--- a/docs-canonical/ENVIRONMENT.md
+++ b/docs-canonical/ENVIRONMENT.md
@@ -96,6 +96,6 @@ Never point the dynamic phase at production.
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/raccioly/websec-validator && cd websec-validator
 pipx install --editable .                # or: pip install -e . in a 3.11+ venv
-python3 -m unittest discover -s tests    # 324 tests, stdlib only
+python3 -m unittest discover -s tests    # 342 tests, stdlib only
 docguard guard                           # validate the documentation (CDD)
 ```
diff --git a/docs-canonical/TEST-SPEC.md b/docs-canonical/TEST-SPEC.md
index 2a7ae37..4e6cbb5 100644
--- a/docs-canonical/TEST-SPEC.md
+++ b/docs-canonical/TEST-SPEC.md
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
 > Last updated: 2026-06-22
 
 The suite is **stdlib `unittest` only** — no third-party test runner, no network, no Noir, no running
-app. **324 tests** across five files run in ~1s and gate every release (the `publish.yml` workflow
+app. **342 tests** across five files run in ~1s and gate every release (the `publish.yml` workflow
 also installs the built wheel and smoke-runs `websec run`).
 
 ```bash
-python3 -m unittest discover -s tests    # 324 tests, stdlib only
+python3 -m unittest discover -s tests    # 342 tests, stdlib only
 ```
 
 ---
diff --git a/src/websec_validator/extractors/surface.py b/src/websec_validator/extractors/surface.py
index c83c4e6..7f0227b 100644
--- a/src/websec_validator/extractors/surface.py
+++ b/src/websec_validator/extractors/surface.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 #   gating: None | "sql" | "nosql"  (datastore-dependent classes)
 SINKS = {
     "ssrf": ("ssrf-probes", None, re.compile(
-        r"(?:\bfetch|axios(?:\.\w+)?|got|node-fetch|superagent|needle|undici|requests\.\w+|httpx\.\w+|urllib\.request\.\w+)"
+        r"(?:\bfetch|axios(?:\.\w+)?|got|node-fetch|superagent|needle(?:\.\w+)?|undici|requests\.\w+|httpx\.\w+|urllib\.request\.\w+)"
         r"\s*\(\s*[^)\n;]{0,160}?" + _REQ_SRC)),
     "command-injection": ("ssrf-probes", None, re.compile(
         r"(?:child_process\.exec|\bexecSync|\bexec|\bspawn|os\.system|subprocess\.(?:run|call|check_output|Popen))\s*\([^)]*"
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
     # MED-FP by design (axios.get(someVar) is common) → kept LOW-confidence; promote when reachable
     # from a controller that reads req.query.
     "ssrf-outbound-http": ("ssrf-probes", None, re.compile(
-        r"(?:axios(?:\.(?:get|post|put|delete|patch|request|head))?|got|node-fetch|needle|superagent|undici"
+        r"(?:axios(?:\.(?:get|post|put|delete|patch|request|head))?|got|node-fetch|needle(?:\.\w+)?|superagent|undici"
         r"|https?\.request|requests\.(?:get|post|put|patch|request)|httpx\.(?:get|post|request|AsyncClient))"
         r"\s*\(\s*[A-Za-z_$][\w$.]*\s*[,)]")),
     # OUTPUT-side disclosure — a DOCUMENTED EXCEPTION to the user-input-marker rule (this is a
diff --git a/tests/test_pentest_regressions.py b/tests/test_pentest_regressions.py
index 734194f..885a925 100644
--- a/tests/test_pentest_regressions.py
+++ b/tests/test_pentest_regressions.py
@@ -141,6 +141,13 @@ def test_ssrf_outbound_var_arg_fires_not_literal(self):
         self.assertIn("proxy.ts", out["sinks"]["ssrf-outbound-http"]["files"])
         self.assertNotIn("safe.ts", out["sinks"]["ssrf-outbound-http"]["files"])
 
+    def test_ssrf_outbound_needle_get(self):
+        out = SurfaceExtractor().extract(repo({
+            "research.js": "const url = req.query.url; return needle.get(url, (err, resp, body) => {});\n"
+        }), {"stack": {"datastores": []}})
+        self.assertIn("ssrf-outbound-http", out["sinks"])
+        self.assertIn("research.js", out["sinks"]["ssrf-outbound-http"]["files"])
+
     def test_error_disclosure_fires_not_on_generic_message(self):
         out = SurfaceExtractor().extract(repo({
             "errh.ts": "export const h=(err,req,res,next)=>res.status(500).json({ error: err.stack });\n",