Open Redirect Vulnerability in WordPress before 4.4.2

Open Redirect Vulnerability in WordPress before 4.4.2

CVE-2016-2221 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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.

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