Activity Log <= 2.8.7 - IP Address Spoofing

2023-09-01 00:00

Bartłomiej Marek

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.8.8

Affected PluginActivity Log – Monitor & Record User Changes

Affected Version<= 2.8.7

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2023-4281

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Vulnerability Overview

The Activity Log plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This is due to insufficient restrictions on where the IP Address information is being retrieved for request logging. Unauthenticated attackers can supply the X-Forwarded-For header with with a different IP Address that will be logged instead of the users true IP address.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.8.8, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: 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.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4281 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/de821236-f878-46a4-9265-bcf6e8661910

CVSS Vector

5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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