Description

The Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 5.3. 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.

INFO

Published Date :

2024-10-08T08:33:17.452Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-08T16:53:37.617Z

Source :

Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-4534 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Wp-buy
  • Limit Login Attempts
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2022-4534.

URL Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-limit-failed-login-attempts/tags/5.3/login.php#L466 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3163023/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/561ec1b2-ee26-4e0c-b437-d70b04be5b4c?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
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