What is CVE-2026-16296?

CVE-2026-16296 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Clearfy Cache, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2026-08-04.

How severe is CVE-2026-16296?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Open Redirect in Clearfy Cache

CVE-2026-16296

The Clearfy Cache WordPress plugin before 2.4.3 does not validate the redirect target in its Cyrlitera old-URL redirect handler, passing a decoded request URI to an unsafe redirect function, which allows unauthenticated attackers to redir…

Vulnerability class: Open Redirect

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Unknown Clearfy Cache — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-601 — URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect)

References

contact@wpscan.com (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-16296?: CVE-2026-16296 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Clearfy Cache, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2026-08-04.
How severe is CVE-2026-16296?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.