Why Choose This Project?

Open redirect vulnerabilities occur when an application blindly redirects users to URLs specified in user inputs (like query parameters), potentially leading to phishing attacks, session hijacking, and reputation damage. This project detects such insecure redirect mechanisms in web applications and educates users on how to prevent them.

It's a powerful ethical hacking and auditing tool for developers, security testers, and cybersecurity learners, with practical value for bug bounty hunters and security consultants.

What You Get in This Project

• Fully functional tool to detect open redirect vulnerabilities

• URL scanner to identify parameters that can be manipulated for redirection

• Payload injector with redirect testing (e.g., ?redirect=https://evil.com)

• Dashboard to monitor scan results and vulnerabilities

• Remediation tips and secure redirect code examples

• Logging system with history and affected endpoints

• Documentation and setup manual

• Responsive frontend with modern UI

Technology Stack

How It Works

1. Input URL Entry
   The user enters a website or endpoint to scan for redirection vulnerabilities (e.g., example.com?redirect=...).

2. Redirection Testing
   The tool automatically injects redirection payloads.

    

3. Response Analysis
   It follows the redirection chain and checks if the response results in:

   • A 3xx status code (302/301) to an external domain

   • JavaScript-based client-side redirection

   • Meta refresh tag abuse

4. Result Display
   Vulnerable URLs and parameters are logged and displayed in a table with:

   • Redirect parameter name

   • Final redirection target

   • Risk level

   • Suggested fix

5. Remediation Guide
   Offers code snippets to secure redirection logic in various languages:

   • Whitelisting allowed redirect domains

   • Using tokens or session-based verification

   • Avoiding client-side dynamic redirect paths

6. Admin Dashboard
   View all tested URLs, status, vulnerability logs, and time/date of scans.

Key Features

• Scans for open redirect in both GET and POST requests

• Logs redirect chains and external domains reached

• Risk classification (low, medium, high) based on behavior

• Suggests preventive measures per language (Node, Java, PHP)

• Highlights insecure coding patterns (window.location, meta refresh)

• Export scan reports to PDF or CSV

• Built-in CAPTCHA protection for abuse prevention

• User authentication to access scan dashboard securely