React Router: Open redirect via backslash in <Link> and useNavigate (CVE-2025-68470 bypass)

React Router is a router for React. Versions 6.0.0 through 7.17.0 are vulnerable to Open Redirtect through use of backslashes in <Link> and useNavigate. This issue is a follow up to CVE-2025-68470 and has been fixed in version 7.18.0.

Problem type

CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

Affected products

remix-run

react-router

>= 6.0.0, < 7.18.0 - AFFECTED

References

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/security/advisories/GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/security/advisories/GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/pull/15176

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/pull/15176

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v7180

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v7180

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/releases/tag/react-router@7.18.0

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/releases/tag/react-router@7.18.0

x_refsource_MISC

http://github.com/remix-run/react-router/pull/15176

http://github.com/remix-run/react-router/pull/15176

x_refsource_MISC

GitHub Security Advisories

GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6

React Router: Open redirect via backslash in <Link> and useNavigate (CVE-2025-68470 bypass)

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6

This is a follow up to CVE-2025-68470. React Router was alerted to certain scenarios in which the fix there was incomplete so there still existed some scenarios where attacker supplied paths passed to navigation mechanisms could result in unexpected external navigations.

github.com

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/security/advisories/GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6

github.com

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/pull/15176

github.com

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v7180

github.com

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/releases/tag/react-router@7.18.0

github.com

http://github.com/remix-run/react-router/pull/15176

github.com

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6

JSON source

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-53669

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