A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in External Links in New Window Plugin up to 1.42 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-1022. The web application produces links to untrusted external sites outside of its sphere of control, but it does not properly prevent the external site from modifying security-critical properties of the window.opener object, such as the location property. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 05/30/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-1583 since 05/04/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.43 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• External Links in New Window Plugin

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33
• 1.34
• 1.35
• 1.36
• 1.37
• 1.38
• 1.39
• 1.40
• 1.41
• 1.42

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