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    1 vulnerability by krut1

    CVE-2022-4532 (GCVE-0-2022-4532)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-17 07:34 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:52
    VLAI
    Title
    LOGIN AND REGISTRATION ATTEMPTS LIMIT<= 2.1 - IP Address Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass
    Summary
    The LOGIN AND REGISTRATION ATTEMPTS LIMIT plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 2.1. 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 from logging in.
    Severity
    6.5 (Medium)
    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
    SSVC
    Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    • CWE-348 - Use of Less Trusted Source
    Assigner
    References
    Impacted products
    Vendor Product Version
    krut1 LOGIN AND REGISTRATION ATTEMPTS LIMIT Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.1 (semver)
    		Create a notification for this product.
    Credits
    Mohammadreza Rashidi
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