# CVE-2023-5610: Seraphinite Accelerator < 2.20.29 - Authenticated Arbitrary Redirect

> An authenticated user can be redirected to arbitrary external URLs due to missing validation in the Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Nov 2023
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hx6v-27f6-jgp7

## What is CVE-2023-5610?

CVE-2023-5610 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Seraphinite Accelerator, published on 20 Nov 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin before 2.2.29 does not validate the URL to redirect any authenticated user to, leading to an arbitrary redirect

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-5610?

It affects 1 product.


Products: S-Sols Seraphinite Accelerator.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-5610?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-5610 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-5610 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5610 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Seraphinite Accelerator

- [CVE-2023-49740](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-49740/): WordPress Seraphinite Accelerator Plugin <= 2.20.28 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2024-1568](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1568/): Seraphinite Accelerator <= 2.20.52 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Server-Side Request Forgery in OnAdminApi_HtmlCheck (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2023-5609](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5609/): Seraphinite Accelerator < 2.20.29 - Reflected XSS (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2023-5611](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5611/): Seraphinite Accelerator < 2.20.32 - Unauthorised Settings Reset/Import (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2026-3058](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-3058/): Information disclosure in Seraphinite Accelerator (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-5610 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-5610 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Seraphinite Accelerator, published on 20 Nov 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5610 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Seraphinite Accelerator. 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-2023-5610/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5610/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5610
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5610
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5610

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5610/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.