Arbitrary URL Redirection and Possible XSS in Django's utils.http.is_safe_url Function

CVE-2016-2512 · MEDIUM Severity

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The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication, as demonstrated by http://mysite.example.com\@attacker.com.

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