CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2221

Published: May 22, 2016 | Modified: Nov 04, 2017
CVSS 3.x
7.4
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Wordpress Wordpress * 4.4.1 (including)
Wordpress Ubuntu artful *
Wordpress Ubuntu precise *
Wordpress Ubuntu trusty *
Wordpress Ubuntu upstream *
Wordpress Ubuntu wily *
Wordpress Ubuntu yakkety *
Wordpress Ubuntu zesty *

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