This vulnerability is moderately dangerous and expected to become exploited.
This could allow a malicious actor to redirect users from one site to the other due to the redirect URL not being validated. Users could be tricked to visiting a legitimate site to then be redirected to a malicious site and cause a phishing incident.
CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.
We advise to mitigate or resolve the vulnerability immediately.
Patchstack has issued a mitigation rule to block any attacks until you have updated to a fixed version.
Update to version 2.8.5 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can turn on auto-update for vulnerable plugins only.
Early warning sent out to Patchstack customers
3 Jul, 2025
Published by Patchstack
3 Jul, 2025