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URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

CVE-2024-21728

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

An Open Redirect vulnerability was found in osTicky2 below 2.2.8. osTicky (osTicket Bridge) by SmartCalc is a Joomla 3.x extension that provides Joomla fronted integration with osTicket, a popular Support ticket system. The Open Redirect vulnerability allows attackers to control the return parameter in the URL to a base64 malicious URL.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-601 - Open Redirect

An open redirect attack employs a URL parameter, HTML refresh tags, or a DOM based location change to exploit the trust of a vulnerable domain to direct the users to a malicious website. The attack could lead to higher severity vulnerabilities such as unauthorized access control, account takeover, XSS, and more.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published