External Links in New Window / New Tab <= 1.42 - Tabnabbing

Use of Web Link to Untrusted Target with window.opener Access
CVE CVE-2022-1583
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published May 9, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf
Description

The External Links in New Window / New Tab WordPress plugin before 1.43 does not ensure window.opener is set to "null" when links to external sites are clicked, which may enable tabnabbing attacks to occur.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug open-external-links-in-a-new-window (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.42
Patched Version
  • 1.43
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