CVE-2022-4533

Description

The Limit Login Attempts Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 1.1.0. 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.

Reserved 2022-12-16 | Published 2024-09-19 | Updated 2024-09-19 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

CWE-348 Use of Less Trusted Source

Product status

Default status
unaffected

*
affected

Timeline

2024-09-18:

Disclosed

Credits

Mohammadreza Rashidi finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-1c8a-4403-b33b-c119bd96ad9d?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...nk/core/LimitLoginAttempts.php

cve.org (CVE-2022-4533)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2022-4533)

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