cve-2022-4537
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-09 02:47
Modified
2025-01-13 16:50
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Hide My WP Ghost – Security Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 5.0.18. 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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/tags/5.0.18/models/Brute.php#L131Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/trunk/models/Brute.php#L132Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4cf89f94-587a-4fed-a6e4-3876b7dbc9ba?source=cveThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/tags/5.0.18/models/Brute.php#L131Product
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/trunk/models/Brute.php#L132Product
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4cf89f94-587a-4fed-a6e4-3876b7dbc9ba?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
johndarrel Hide My WP Ghost – Security Plugin Version: *   ≤ 5.0.18
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