Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) <= 5.3 - IP Address Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass

5.3
Use of Less Trusted Source
CVE CVE-2022-4534
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published October 7, 2024
Last Updated October 8, 2024
Researcher rezaduty

Description

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.

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Vulnerability Details for Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection)

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-limit-failed-login-attempts (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.4, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.3
Patched Version
  • 5.4

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