CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2221
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.4.1)
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3472 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82463 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034933 www.securitytracker.com
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.4.2 Patch
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36444 Patch
- https://wordpress.org/news/2016/02/wordpress-4-4-2-security-and-maintenance-release/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8377 wpvulndb.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3472 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82463 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034933 www.securitytracker.com
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.4.2 Patch
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36444 Patch
- https://wordpress.org/news/2016/02/wordpress-4-4-2-security-and-maintenance-release/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8377 wpvulndb.com