🛡️ CVE-2022-1601 — user-access-manager

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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Description

The User Access Manager WordPress plugin before 2.2.18 prioritizes getting a visitor's IP from certain HTTP headers over PHP's REMOTE_ADDR, which makes it possible for attackers to access restricted content in certain situations.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2022-1601 is recorded against 1 package.

  • user-access-manager (fixed in 2.2.18)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 August 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

wpscan.com
wpscan.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-30
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
user-access-manager — 2.2.18

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