Wp Symposium: An open redirect
Wp Symposium 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
- Wp Symposium
- Plugin slug
wp-symposium- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 28, 2014
This CVE was published Mar 28, 2014 and is one of 10 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Wp Symposium 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 invite.php in the WP Symposium plugin 13.04 for WordPress allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the u parameter.
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N