Title: Redirection plugin “closed down”?
Last modified: November 14, 2018

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# Redirection plugin “closed down”?

 *  Resolved [markwill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwill/)
 * (@markwill)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-closed-down/)
 * Why has the Redirection plugin been “closed down” today? Is it going to be available
   again?

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 *  [sneader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sneader/)
 * (@sneader)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-closed-down/#post-10881269)
 * Wondering the same.
 *  [CarolKn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carolkn/)
 * (@carolkn)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-closed-down/#post-10881318)
 * Wordfence just flagged this in a security scan on one of our sites.
    Critical
   Problems: * The Plugin “Redirection” has been removed from wordpress.org.
 *  Thread Starter [markwill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwill/)
 * (@markwill)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-closed-down/#post-10881327)
 * Carol, my assumption there is that WordFence is reporting the removal as the 
   issue, rather than specifically stating that a security issue has been detected.
   Is that how you would interpret that?
 *  [CarolKn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carolkn/)
 * (@carolkn)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-closed-down/#post-10881342)
 * Yes, there’s nothing on the WF site specific to a Redirection security issue 
   that I can find.
 *  [sneader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sneader/)
 * (@sneader)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-closed-down/#post-10881384)
 * When I came to the plugin page at [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/)
   it said “this plugin is closed down”. Anyone coming here due to a WordFence warning—
   that is (or was) the problem.
 * For some reason, now this plugin is no longer reporting that it is “closed down”
 * The question is… what caused there to be a “closed down” warning in the first
   place, and why is it gone now? In other words, what the heck is going on? 🙂
 * – Scott
 *  [luigitec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luigitec/)
 * (@luigitec)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-closed-down/#post-10881397)
 * Probably the author closed it down, due to a possible CSRF, check the latest 
   commit/version. It’s open to downloads again, so we think it’s fine now.
 *  [Garrett Hyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garrett-eclipse/)
 * (@garrett-eclipse)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-closed-down/#post-10881412)
 * Yes, from #pluginreview on Slack it appears it was hidden temporarily while the
   CSRF security issue was addressed and then restored with that update. It’s back
   and available to update.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-closed-down/#post-10882729)
 * Yep, the plugin was disabled for an hour or so due to a potential CSRF issue.
   I removed the code from the plugin until I have time to investigate it properly.
   This will have no effect on the running of any redirects.
 *  [sneader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sneader/)
 * (@sneader)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-closed-down/#post-10884525)
 * Thank you for the explanation and also for the great plugin!!
 * – Scott

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