Maintenance & Coming Soon Redirect Animation <= 2.3.0 - IP Spoofing to Bypass

Use of Less Trusted Source

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE	CVE-2024-43944
CVSS	Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published	August 26, 2024
Last Updated	March 12, 2025
Researcher	Hoa Le Ngoc (lengochoa)

Description

The Maintenance & Coming Soon Redirect Animation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.0 due to insufficient IP address validation and/or use of user-supplied HTTP headers as a primary method for IP retrieval. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass IP restrictions.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 2.1.3
Patched Version

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