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.

INFO

Published Date :

2024-08-31T09:35:55.748Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-08T16:35:30.622Z

Source :

Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-4539 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Miniorange
  • Web Application Firewall
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2022-4539.

URL Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3055548/web-application-firewall/trunk/helper/utility.php cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0e99531c-8742-4f91-8525-65bb3cb06644?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
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