Attack ChainAIDerived
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AccessCraft form submission with external return URL
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ExploitLure victim to submit Mautic form
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ExecutionEndpoint redirects without host validation
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ImpactVictim lands on phishing or malware site
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Redirect URL validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The Mautic instance must have at least one published public form, and the public /form/submit endpoint must be reachable (its normal default state). Exploitation requires the victim to submit a form prepared by the attacker carrying an attacker-chosen return address - this user interaction (reflected in UI:R) is the primary limiting factor, meaning the attack cannot be fully automated against passive targets and depends on successful social engineering. No authentication is required (PR:N), and all versions below the fixed releases (5.2.12, 6.0.10, 7.2.2) are affected regardless of configuration. |
| Impact | This is a genuine but moderate-priority issue, not a top-tier emergency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N = 5.4 Medium) shows a network-reachable, low-complexity flaw needing no privileges but requiring victim interaction (the victim must submit an attacker-prepared form). The vuln.today Decision label is 'this_month' - meaning scheduled remediation, not immediate action. No CISA KEV listing and no EPSS score were supplied, so there is no signal of active or probable exploitation; absence of these is not proof of safety but does argue against widespread automated abuse. No proof-of-concept or exploit reference is present in the input - only the Mautic GHSA advisory itself - so this remains no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The signals are internally consistent: an open redirect (CWE-601) that leverages the trust of a legitimate Mautic domain to boost phishing/malware delivery. Real-world risk is driven less by direct system impact (the vulnerable server is not compromised) than by reputational/phishing abuse, and is capped by the UI:R requirement. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a link or page that submits a published Mautic form while supplying a return address pointing to an attacker-controlled site. A targeted victim submits the form, and the Mautic instance redirects their browser from the trusted Mautic domain to a phishing clone of the landing page or a malware-delivery site. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and the attack succeeds only because the victim trusts the originating Mautic domain. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 26, 2026
Open redirect in Mautic's public form submission endpoint (/form/submit) causes the application to send a visitor to a return address supplied with the submission without confirming that it resolves to the Mautic instance or another trusted host, so a crafted form can bounce visitors from a legitimate Mautic domain to an attacker-chosen external site such as a phishing clone or a malware delivery page. Every Mautic release below 5.2.12, 6.0.10 and 7.2.2 is affected, and any instance with a published public form is exposed; the attacker needs no authentication (PR:N) but the victim must actually submit the attacker-prepared form (UI:R), which keeps this a moderate-priority, social-engineering-dependent issue rather than an emergency. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, and the vendor rates the impact as limited confidentiality and integrity only (CVSS 5.4).
RemediationAI
Upgrade to the fixed release on your branch: Mautic 7.2.2 for the 7.x line, 6.0.10 for the 6.x line, or 5.2.12 for the 5.x line, per the GitHub advisory at https://github.com/mautic/mautic/security/advisories/GHSA-5mm3-3g7p-9868; Mautic 4 users must go through the vendor's ELTS program since no 4.x fix is listed. The vendor states there are no official workarounds, and its only stated interim mitigation is to configure a reverse proxy or web application firewall rule that blocks redirect responses from /form/submit to hosts other than your Mautic instance and your own websites - a rule like this needs to be kept in sync with your legitimate destination hosts or it will break normal post-submission redirects and form conversion tracking. Updating is presented as the complete fix; blocking or unpublishing public forms would remove the attack surface but also stops lead capture, so it is only a stopgap if patching must wait.
Affected ProductsAI
The affected component is composer/mautic/core across three vulnerable ranges: versions from 1.0.0-beta up to but excluding 5.2.12, versions from 6.0.0 up to but excluding 6.0.10, and versions from 7.0.0 up to but excluding 7.2.2, with fixes released in 5.2.12, 6.0.10 and 7.2.2 respectively. Mautic 4 is no longer in general security support and is handled through the vendor's Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) program described at https://mautic.org/extended-long-term-support-elts/. Exposure is not configuration-specific beyond the ordinary case: any instance that has at least one published public form, with the /form/submit endpoint reachable in its normal default state, is affected. The vendor advisory is at https://github.com/mautic/mautic/security/advisories/GHSA-5mm3-3g7p-9868.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This is CWE-601, URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect'), in the PHP/Symfony-based Mautic marketing automation platform distributed as the Composer package composer/mautic/core. The flaw sits in the public form submission flow rather than in an administrative or authenticated area: after a visitor posts a form, the controller builds a redirect from a return address carried in the submission and issues it without an allowlist or same-host check against the Mautic instance or other trusted hosts. Because the redirect is served from the trusted Mautic origin, the resulting link inherits the reputation of the legitimate domain, which is what makes it useful for phishing pages that imitate the original landing page or for sites that deliver malware. The advisory does not name the specific request parameter or describe the parsing logic in detail, so the exact trigger beyond the submit-then-redirect sequence is not described in the available sources. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N) reflects a network-reachable endpoint with no authentication requirement, where the user interaction of submitting the attacker's form is the limiting factor, and where the scope stays unchanged because the redirect targets a third-party site rather than granting control over the Mautic host itself. No CPE data was supplied; affected component identification comes from the Composer package ranges in the GitHub advisory.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Network-reachable and unauthenticated (AV:N/PR:N/AC:L), but the victim must submit an attacker-crafted form (UI:R); only low confidentiality/integrity impact arises from the redirect-enabled phishing, with no availability impact.
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CVSS VectorVendor: Mautic
DescriptionCVE.org
An Open Redirect vulnerability exists in the public form submission endpoint (/form/submit) of Mautic. After a form is submitted, the application redirects the visitor to a return address supplied with the submission without verifying that it points to the Mautic instance or another trusted host. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this to send visitors from a legitimate Mautic domain to an arbitrary external website, for example to phishing pages that imitate the original landing page or to sites that deliver malware. Any Mautic instance with a published form is affected. Exploitation requires the victim to submit a form prepared by the attacker.
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