Re: CVE request: vanilla forums before 2.0.10, xss

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org> wrote:
> > As for the "linkbait" issue, I have no clue. Nothing in git seems to
> > point at that.
> >
> > Steve, does MITRE have a precedent for such a thing?
>
> The vendor is calling it a "vulnerability" which is good enough to assign
> a CVE to, as a different vuln type than XSS.
>
> My guess is that it's open redirect, which is used to redirect users away
> from the site towards spam or malware.  Just a guess, though.

Let's use CVE-2010-4266 then.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB