Activity Log <= 2.8.7 - IP Address Spoofing

Use of Less Trusted Source
CVE CVE-2023-4281
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published September 1, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Bartłomiej Marek, Tomasz Swiadek
Description

The Activity Log plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This is due to insufficient restrictions on where the IP Address information is being retrieved for request logging. Unauthenticated attackers can supply the X-Forwarded-For header with with a different IP Address that will be logged instead of the users true IP address.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug aryo-activity-log (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.7
Patched Version
  • 2.8.8
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