wp-includes/pluggable.php:1665Validates a URL for use in a redirect.
$locationstring$fallback_urlstringoptional''stringOne hook fires while wp_validate_redirect() runs, in this order:
Filters the list of allowed hosts to redirect to.
function wp_validate_redirect( $location, $fallback_url = '' ) { $location = wp_sanitize_redirect( trim( $location, " \t\n\r\0\x08\x0B" ) ); // Browsers will assume 'http' is your protocol, and will obey a redirect to a URL starting with '//'. if ( str_starts_with( $location, '//' ) ) { $location = 'http:' . $location; } /* * In PHP 5 parse_url() may fail if the URL query part contains 'http://'. * See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38143 */ $cut = strpos( $location, '?' ); $test = $cut ? substr( $location, 0, $cut ) : $location; $lp = parse_url( $test ); // Give up if malformed URL. if ( false === $lp ) { return $fallback_url; } // Allow only 'http' and 'https' schemes. No 'data:', etc. if ( isset( $lp['scheme'] ) && ! ( 'http' === $lp['scheme'] || 'https' === $lp['scheme'] ) ) { return $fallback_url; } if ( ! isset( $lp['host'] ) && ! empty( $lp['path'] ) && '/' !== $lp['path'][0] ) { $path = ''; if ( ! empty( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) ) { $path = dirname( parse_url( 'http://placeholder' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH ) . '?' ); $path = wp_normalize_path( $path ); } $location = '/' . ltrim( $path . '/', '/' ) . $location; } /* * Reject if certain components are set but host is not. * This catches URLs like https:host.com for which parse_url() does not set the host field. */ if ( ! isset( $lp['host'] ) && ( isset( $lp['scheme'] ) || isset( $lp['user'] ) || isset( $lp['pass'] ) || isset( $lp['port'] ) ) ) { return $fallback_url; } // Reject malformed components parse_url() can return on odd inputs. foreach ( array( 'user', 'pass', 'host' ) as $component ) { if ( isset( $lp[ $component ] ) && strpbrk( $lp[ $component ], ':/?#@' ) ) { return $fallback_url; } } $wpp = parse_url( home_url() ); /** * Filters the list of allowed hosts to redirect to. * * @since 2.3.0 * * @param string[] $hosts An array of allowed host names. * @param string $host The host name of the redirect destination; empty string if not set. */ $allowed_hosts = (array) apply_filters( 'allowed_redirect_hosts', array( $wpp['host'] ), $lp['host'] ?? '' ); if ( isset( $lp['host'] ) && ( ! in_array( $lp['host'], $allowed_hosts, true ) && strtolower( $wpp['host'] ) !== $lp['host'] ) ) { $location = $fallback_url; } return $location; }Introduced in 2.8.1. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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