Where are you going?

UH!OpenRedirect!Plain

  29 April 2008

Description

Using an open redirect to hide an URL. See also Are you feeling lucky, Sergey?

Example

http://www.google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=PQwNRM&num=29353
  &adurl=http://www.spamsite.com/

http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=DirEZ;~sscs=%3fhttp://www.spamsite.com/

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