CVE-2022-4539

medium

Description

The Web Application Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 2.1.2. 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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0e99531c-8742-4f91-8525-65bb3cb06644?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3055548/web-application-firewall/trunk/helper/utility.php

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-08-31

Updated: 2024-09-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium