CWE-1022 Use of Web Link to Untrusted Target with window.opener Access
variantThe 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.
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| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
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| CVE-2024-39727US | critical9.8 | — | ||
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 uses a web link with untrusted references to an external site. A remote attacker could exploit this vu… | ||||
| CVE-2022-1583US | medium6.5 | — | ||
The External Links in New Window / New Tab WordPress plugin before 1.43 does not ensure window.opener is set to "null" when links to external sites are clicked, which may enable ta… | ||||
| CVE-2025-27902US | medium6.1 | — | ||
IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for Linux, UNIX and Windows 5.5 IF 2 uses a web link with untrusted references to an external site. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to ex… | ||||
| CVE-2025-33014US | medium6.1 | — | ||
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling File Gateway 6.0.0.0 through 6.1.2.7 and 6.2.0.0 through 6.2.0.4 uses a web link with untrusted references to an external site. A remot… | ||||
| CVE-2022-4927US | medium6.1 | — | ||
A vulnerability was found in ualbertalib NEOSDiscovery 1.0.70 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file app/views/bookmarks/_refworks.ht… | ||||
| CVE-2018-25058US | medium6.1 | — | ||
A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Twitter-Post-Fetcher up to 17.x. This affects an unknown part of the file js/twitterFetcher.js of the component Link Tar… | ||||
| CVE-2020-36624US | medium6.1 | — | ||
A vulnerability was found in ahorner text-helpers up to 1.0.x. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file lib/text_helpers/translation.rb… | ||||
| CVE-2021-33697US | medium6.1 | — | ||
Under certain conditions, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (SAPUI5), versions - 420, 430, can allow an unauthenticated attacker to redirect users to a malicious s… | ||||
| CVE-2022-2600US | medium5.4 | — | ||
The Auto-hyperlink URLs WordPress plugin through 5.4.1 does not set rel="noopener noreferer" on generated links, which can lead to Tab Nabbing by giving the target site access to t… | ||||
| CVE-2018-25089US | medium5.3 | — | ||
A vulnerability was found in glb Meetup Tag Extension 0.1 on MediaWiki. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Link Attribute… | ||||
| CVE-2021-39112US | medium4.8 | — | ||
Affected versions of Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center allow remote attackers to redirect users to a malicious URL via a reverse tabnapping vulnerability in the Project Shortcu… | ||||
| CVE-2025-59842US | medium4.3 | — | ||
jupyterlab is an extensible environment for interactive and reproducible computing, based on the Jupyter Notebook Architecture. Prior to version 4.4.8, links generated with LaTeX t… | ||||
| CVE-2026-71555US | — | — | ||
PILOS (Platform for Interactive Live-Online Seminars) is a frontend for BigBlueButton. From 2.1.0 until 4.14.1, PILOS does not send a Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy response header, so… | ||||
| CVE-2025-42941US | — | — | ||
SAP Fiori (Launchpad) is vulnerable to Reverse Tabnabbing vulnerability due to inadequate external navigation protections for its link (<a>) elements. An attacker with administrati… | ||||
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