All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall <= 5.0.8 - IP Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass

6.5
Use of Less Trusted Source
CVE CVE-2022-4097
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 21, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf

Description

The All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 5.0.8. 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.

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Vulnerability Details for All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.0.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.0.7
Patched Version
  • 5.0.8

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