CVE-2022-4534 (GCVE-0-2022-4534)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-08 08:33 – Updated: 2024-10-09 15:44
VLAI?
Summary
The Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 5.3. This is due to insufficient restrictions on where the IP Address information is being retrieved for request logging and login restrictions. Attackers can supply the X-Forwarded-For header with with a different IP Address that will be logged and can be used to bypass settings that may have blocked out an IP address or country from logging in.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-348 - Use of Less Trusted Source
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wp-buy Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) Affected: * , ≤ 5.3 (semver)
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Credits
Mohammadreza Rashidi
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