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Wordpress: CVE-2016-2221: Unspecified Security Vulnerability

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Wordpress: CVE-2016-2221: Unspecified Security Vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/16/2017
Modified
05/23/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-4_4_2

References

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