CVE-2012-6499 describes an open redirect vulnerability in the Age Verification plugin (version 0.4 and earlier) for WordPress, allowing attackers to redirect users to arbitrary websites for phishing. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.8) has a low attack complexity and can lead to information disclosure and integrity issues. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB and Nuclei templates, though it lacks significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:age_verification_project:age_verification:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.