CVE-2012-6499

medium

Published 2013-01-12 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

Open redirect vulnerability in age-verification.php in the Age Verification plugin 0.4 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the redirect_to parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36540 webapps php verified

Gianluca Brindisi · 2012-01-10

WordPress Plugin Age Verification 0.4 - 'redirect_to' Open Redirection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-18350 webapps php verified

Gianluca Brindisi · 2012-01-10

WordPress Plugin Age Verification 0.4 - Open Redirect

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
age_verification_project	age_verification	`{"endIncluding":"0.4"}`
wordpress	wordpress	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.