Age Verification: An open redirect
Age Verification is affected by an open redirect. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A crafted link can redirect visitors from the trusted site to an attacker-controlled destination.
- Component
- Age Verification
- Plugin slug
age-verification- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 12, 2013
This CVE was published Jan 12, 2013 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Age Verification to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
Open redirect vulnerability in age-verification.php in the Age Verification plugin 0.4 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the redirect_to parameter.
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N