Candidate: CVE-2016-2221
PublicDate: 2016-05-22 01:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2221
 https://wordpress.org/news/2016/02/wordpress-4-4-2-security-and-maintenance-release/
 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36444
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/04/4
Description:
 Open redirect vulnerability in the wp_validate_redirect function in
 wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 4.4.2 allows remote attackers
 to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a
 malformed URL that triggers incorrect hostname parsing, as demonstrated by
 an https:example.com URL.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813697
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N [7.4 HIGH]

Patches_wordpress:
upstream_wordpress: released (4.4.2+dfsg-1)
precise_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_wordpress: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_wordpress: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_wordpress: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_wordpress: DNE
wily_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_wordpress: not-affected (4.4.2+dfsg-1)
yakkety_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_wordpress: not-affected (4.4.2+dfsg-1)
cosmic_wordpress: not-affected (4.4.2+dfsg-1)
disco_wordpress: not-affected (4.4.2+dfsg-1)
devel_wordpress: not-affected (4.4.2+dfsg-1)