Login Block IPs <= 1.0.0 - IP Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass

Use of Less Trusted Source
CVE CVE-2022-1579
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published September 5, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf
Description

The Login Block IPs plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to and including 1.0.0. This is due to insufficient restrictions on where the IP Address information is being retrieved in the check_is_login_page() function . Attackers can supply the HTTP_CLIENT_IP header with with a different IP Address that can be used to bypass any blocks.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug login-block-ips (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= *
Patched Version
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