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CVE-2024-22308:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2024-22308 is an Open Redirect vulnerability affecting the Simple Membership WordPress plugin through version 4.4.1. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Joshua Chan, with initial disclosure on January 19, 2024 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') issue (CWE-601). It has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.1 MEDIUM (NIST: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) and 3.4 LOW (Patchstack: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N) (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to redirect users from one site to another due to the redirect URL not being validated. Users could be tricked into visiting a legitimate site only to be redirected to a malicious site, potentially leading to phishing incidents (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.4.2 of the Simple Membership plugin. Users are advised to update to version 4.4.2 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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