# CVE-2022-35953: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') in bookwyrm

> Attackers can redirect users to malicious sites via tabnabbing in BookWyrm, facilitating phishing attacks against the social reading platform.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Aug 2022
- **Updated:** 22 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xq42-mq5w-m24x

## What is CVE-2022-35953?

CVE-2022-35953 is a high-severity vulnerability in bookwyrm-social bookwyrm, published on 12 Aug 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Some links in BookWyrm may be vulnerable to tabnabbing, a form of phishing that gives attackers an opportunity to redirect a user to a malicious site. The issue was patched in version 0.4.5.

Weakness: CWE-601 (URL Redirection to Untrusted Site)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-35953?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Joinbookwyrm Bookwyrm.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-35953?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-35953 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-35953 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-35953 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in bookwyrm-social bookwyrm

- [CVE-2022-2651](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2651/): Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-23644](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-23644/): Server-side request forgery in BookWyrm (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-31136](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-31136/): Cross-site Scripting in BookWyrm (medium 6.3)
- [CVE-2022-35925](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-35925/): Missing rate limit in Authentication in bookwyrm (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-35953 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-35953 is a high-severity vulnerability in bookwyrm-social bookwyrm, published on 12 Aug 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-35953 exists.

Affected product: bookwyrm-social bookwyrm. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-35953/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-35953/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-35953
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-35953
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-35953

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-35953/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.