Hide My WP Ghost – Security Plugin <= 5.0.18 - IP Address Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass
Published May 9, 2023
6.5
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.32%
Description
The Hide My WP Ghost – Security Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 5.0.18. 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 from logging in.
Affected products
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- Version -StatusaffectedConstraints<=5.0.18
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johndarrel | Hide My WP Ghost – Security Plugin | unaffected |
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- ≤ 5.0.18
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No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
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References (3)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/tags/5.0.18/models/Brute.php#L131 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/trunk/models/Brute.php#L132 Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4cf89f94-587a-4fed-a6e4-3876b7dbc9ba?source=cve Third Party Advisory
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