How I was able to inject my malicious link in Email Confirmation Link ( Link Injection / Open…

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In today’s write-up, we will explore how I was able to inject my malicious link into the Email Confirmation Link by bypassing open redirect protection.

First, we will start by understanding what an open redirect is.

An open redirect vulnerability occurs when a web application accepts a URL as a parameter and redirects users to it without validating its destination. This lack of validation allows attackers to craft URLs that appear to be legitimate but redirect users to a different, often malicious, website.

In our case, I’ll show you how I exploited this vulnerability to inject a malicious link into an email confirmation Link, bypassing open redirect protection measures.

Since I can’t disclose the actual domain name for security purposes, I’ll refer to it as target.com throughout this write-up.

So I began testing on target.com by attempting to create a user account. My goal was to log in and explore the platform’s…