Open redirects

- [Instructor] AppSec Tutorials: Open Redirects. About this course. Open redirects are a type of security vulnerability that can affect many web applications. Anytime a system redirects traffic in an unsafe manner, it could potentially benefit malicious users who depend on such oversights to succeed in their goals. In this course, you'll see some examples of how this weakness can arise and how it can be addressed. To get the most out of this course, if you haven't already done so, we recommend that you take our Introduction to Web Application Security course first. Hello and welcome to AppSec Tutorials. My name is Kevin Richard, and I'm a security researcher with Veracode. In this video, I'm going to introduce you to a security weakness called open redirects, or as it's sometimes known, unvalidated redirects and forwards. Along the way, I'll be using an application called VeraInsecure, a small web app that we've built to contain an enormous number of security threats. So let's get…