🛡️ CVE-2022-4534
🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-348 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-348
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-10-08
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-04-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

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