Login No Captcha reCAPTCHA <= 1.6.11 - CAPTCHA Bypass via Whitelisted IP Address Spoofing

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-2913
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published August 16, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf
Description

The Login No Captcha reCAPTCHA plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.6.11. This is due to the whitelisted IP address functionality relying on user-supplied IP addresses from an HTTP Header. If an attacker can gain access to a whitelisted IP address they can spoof the request to come from one of those IP addresses using an HTTP header which would bypass any restrictions.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug login-recaptcha (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.11
Patched Version
  • 1.7
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