CVE-2022-4537

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.

CVSS v3 6.5 MEDIUM

6.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 2.5

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
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

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:wpplugins:hide_my_wp_ghost:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2023-05-09 03:15

Updated : 2024-02-28 20:13

NVD link : CVE-2022-4537

Mitre link : CVE-2022-4537

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-4537

JSON object : View

Products Affected

wpplugins

hide_my_wp_ghost

CWE

CWE-345

Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

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