Maintenance Redirect <= 2.0.1 - IP Spoofing to Maintenance Mode Bypass

Use of Less Trusted Source
CVE CVE-2024-45453
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published September 16, 2024
Last Updated September 18, 2024
Researcher Hoa Le Ngoc (lengochoa)
Description

The Maintenance Redirect plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.1 due to insufficient IP address validation and use of user-supplied HTTP headers as a primary method for IP retrieval. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to spoof their IP address and bypass maintenance mode.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug jf3-maintenance-mode (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.1
Patched Version
  • 2.1.0
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