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CVE-2016-2221

CVE-2016-2221

EPSS 4.7%
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 products
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References
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.4.2https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36444https://wordpress.org/news/2016/02/wordpress-4-4-2-security-and-maintenance-release/https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8377http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3472http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82463http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034933