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by bjornedstrom 2726 days ago
As a security professional I agree. When I worked at companies with bug bounties I always considered open redirects in the lamest category of bugs, unless the open redirect was cleverly combined with other issues, which was very rare.
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I once worked to patch an open redirect on a system where the redirect was at the end of the oauth flow. Could have been used for some pretty nasty phishing attacks.