March 31, 2023, 12:39 p.m. | ASWIN K V

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A Bug Bounty Report on the Risks of Unvalidated URL Redirections in Websites and Applications

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When a person is given power over a redirect or forward to another URL by an application, this is known as an open redirect vulnerability.

If the programme doesn’t check untrusted user input, a hacker may provide a URL that takes a gullible victim away from a trustworthy domain and onto a phishing website.

To give their phishing attempts …

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