WordPress Core < 2.2.2 - Open Redirect

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
CVE CVE-2007-3639
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published August 8, 2007
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

WordPress before 2.2.2 allows remote attackers to redirect visitors to other websites and potentially obtain sensitive information via (1) the _wp_http_referer parameter to wp-pass.php, related to the wp_get_referer function in wp-includes/functions.php; and possibly other vectors related to (2) wp-includes/pluggable.php and (3) the wp_nonce_ays function in wp-includes/functions.php.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.1
Patched Version
  • 2.2.2
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