diff --git a/src/cascadia/TerminalApp/TerminalPage.cpp b/src/cascadia/TerminalApp/TerminalPage.cpp
index 94e9865e63a..f20c106ee0b 100644
--- a/src/cascadia/TerminalApp/TerminalPage.cpp
+++ b/src/cascadia/TerminalApp/TerminalPage.cpp
@@ -2473,14 +2473,27 @@ namespace winrt::TerminalApp::implementation
             {
                 return true;
             }
+
+            // GH#10188: WSL paths are okay. We'll let those through.
+            if (host == L"wsl$" || host == L"wsl.localhost")
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+
             // TODO: by the OSC 8 spec, if a hostname (other than localhost) is provided, we _should_ be
             // comparing that value against what is returned by GetComputerNameExW and making sure they match.
             // However, ShellExecute does not seem to be happy with file URIs of the form
             //          file://{hostname}/path/to/file.ext
             // and so while we could do the hostname matching, we do not know how to actually open the URI
             // if its given in that form. So for now we ignore all hostnames other than localhost
+            return false;
         }
-        return false;
+
+        // In this case, the app manually output a URI other than file:// or
+        // http(s)://. We'll trust the user knows what they're doing when
+        // clicking on those sorts of links.
+        // See discussion in GH#7562 for more details.
+        return true;
     }
 
     // Important! Don't take this eventArgs by reference, we need to extend the