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CVE-2016-2221

Published: May 22, 2016

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Open redirect vulnerability in the wp_validate_redirect function in wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 4.4.2 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a malformed URL that triggers incorrect hostname parsing, as demonstrated by an https:example.com URL.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.4.2

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vdb-entry

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vdb-entry

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https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36444

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https://wordpress.org/news/2016/02/wordpress-4-4-2-security-and-maintenance-release/

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vendor-advisory

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https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8377

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