# CVE-2026-55185: Miniflux 2: Open Redirect Bypass

- Also known as: GO-2026-5500, GHSA-M999-J542-5W3R
- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.3.1
- Published: 2026-08-21 · Updated: 2026-08-24

## Affected

- miniflux v2: fixed in 2.3.1
- miniflux.app (Go): all versions
- miniflux.app/v2 (Go): fixed in 2.3.1

## Description

Miniflux 2 is an open source feed reader. Prior to 2.3.1, IsRelativePath in internal/urllib/url.go accepts redirect targets containing backslashes because Go URL parsing treats them as path characters. Browser backslash normalization converts them to forward slashes. An unauthenticated attacker can provide such a redirect_url value to the login flow, bypass the relative-path and host checks, and redirect a victim to an attacker-controlled external site. This issue is fixed in version 2.3.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on miniflux v2, miniflux.app, miniflux.app/v2, upgrade to a fixed version (2.3.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/miniflux/v2/security/advisories/GHSA-m999-j542-5w3r
- https://github.com/miniflux/v2/pull/4362
- https://github.com/miniflux/v2/commit/c896bafdaa19c3f280b02b1059f84706495f1949
- https://github.com/miniflux/v2/releases/tag/2.3.1

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