Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) <= 5.3 - IP Address Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.4
- Affected Plugin
- Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection)
- Affected Version
<= 5.3- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-348 · Use of Less Trusted Source
- CVE
CVE-2022-4534
At a glance
CVE-2022-4534 is a medium-severity Use of Less Trusted Source vulnerability in the Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.3. 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 5.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2024, reported by rezaduty.
Vulnerability Overview
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.
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 5.4, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection): WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) 5.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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