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IP Vault – WP Firewall <= 1.1 - IP Address Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass

Published Aug 31, 2024

Description

The IP Vault – WP Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 1.1. 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.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Wordfence
Published Aug 31, 2024
Updated Apr 8, 2026
Reserved Dec 16, 2022
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Sep 3, 2024
NVD
Status Analyzed
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a