Description
The User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in versions up to and including 5.1.4. This is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied URLs passed via the 'redirect_to_on_logout' GET parameter before redirecting users. The `redirect_to_on_logout` GET parameter is passed directly to WordPress's `wp_redirect()` function instead of the domain-restricted `wp_safe_redirect()`. While `esc_url_raw()` is applied to sanitize malformed URLs, it does not restrict the redirect destination to the local domain, allowing an attacker to craft a specially formed link that redirects users to potentially malicious external URLs after logout, which could be used to facilitate phishing attacks.
Problem types
CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
Product status
Any version
Timeline
| 2026-04-13: | Vendor Notified |
| 2026-04-13: | Disclosed |
Credits
Louis Deschanel
Pascal SUN
Anthony Cihan
References
www.wordfence.com/...-9544-49b7-941d-3b7f509fdfdf?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...udes/functions-ur-template.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...udes/functions-ur-template.php