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WordPress < 5.4.2 - Open Redirection

Description

Props to Ben Bidner of the WordPress Security Team for finding an open redirect issue in wp_validate_redirect().

Affects WordPress

5.4.1
Fixed in version 5.4.2
5.4
Fixed in version 5.4.2
5.3.3
Fixed in version 5.3.4
5.3.2
Fixed in version 5.3.4
5.3.1
Fixed in version 5.3.4
5.3
Fixed in version 5.3.4
5.2.6
Fixed in version 5.2.7
5.2.5
Fixed in version 5.2.7
5.2.4
Fixed in version 5.2.7
5.2.3
Fixed in version 5.2.7

References

CVE
CVE-2020-4048
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2020/06/wordpress-5-4-2-security-and-maintenance-release/
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/10e2a50c523cf0b9785555a688d7d36a40fbeccf
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-q6pw-gvf4-5fj5

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Ben Bidner

Verified

No

WPVDB ID
12855f02-432e-4484-af09-7d0fbf596909

Timeline

Publicly Published

2020-06-11 (about 2 years ago)

Added

2020-06-11 (about 2 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-06-13 (about 2 years ago)

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