Restricted Site Access <= 7.3.1 - Access Bypass via IP Spoofing

6.5
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2022-1613
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published August 31, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf

Description

The Restricted Site Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 7.3.1 due to prioritizing getting a visitor's IP from certain HTTP headers over PHP's REMOTE_ADDR. This makes it possible to bypass IP-based limitations in certain situations.

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Vulnerability Details for Restricted Site Access

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug restricted-site-access (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 7.3.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 7.3.2
Patched Version
  • 7.3.2

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