🛡️ CVE-2022-4303
🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-290 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The WP Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin through 2.6.4 prioritizes getting a visitor's IP from certain HTTP headers over PHP's REMOTE_ADDR, which makes it possible to bypass IP-based restrictions on login forms.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-290
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-01-23
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-04-02
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wp-limit-login-attempts 2.6.4

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