Titan Anti Spam & Security <= 7.3.0 - IP Spoofing to Protection Bypass
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 7.3.1
- Affected Version
<= 7.3.0- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-348 · Use of Less Trusted Source
- CVE
CVE-2022-2877
At a glance
CVE-2022-2877 is a medium-severity Use of Less Trusted Source vulnerability in the Titan Anti-spam & Security WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 7.3.0. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 7.3.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2022, reported by Daniel Ruf.
Vulnerability Overview
The Titan Anti Spam & Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection bypass due to improper IP validation in versions up to, and including, 7.3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to download the logs of the plugin which can contain sensitive information
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-348: Use of Less Trusted Source
The product has two different sources of the same data or information, but it uses the source that has less support for verification, is less trusted, or is less resistant to attack.
Remediation
Update to version 7.3.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Titan Anti-spam & Security: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Titan Anti-spam & Security 7.3.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Titan Anti-spam & Security – Brute Force Protection, 2FA & Spam Filter
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