Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection), CVE-2022-4534

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2022-4534
Home page URL: Security reports for Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection)
Application: Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection)
Published on: Oct 08, 2024
Research 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.
Affected versions: max 5.4.
Status: vulnerable