Site Reviews <= 6.11.8 - IP Address Spoofing to Blocking Bypass

2024-05-08 00:00

Maksymilian Kubiak

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 7.0.0

Affected PluginSite Reviews

Affected Version<= 6.11.8

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-3050

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Vulnerability Overview

The Site Reviews plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in all versions up to, and including, 6.11.8 due to insufficient IP address validation and/or use of user-supplied HTTP headers as a primary method for IP retrieval. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass IP based blocking.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 7.0.0, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-290 (Authentication Bypass by Spoofing) This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3050 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/667870b0-916d-4add-a391-ffcc177a3757

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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