Restricted Site Access <= 7.3.1 - Access Bypass via IP Spoofing

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2022-1613
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published August 31, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf
Description

The Restricted Site Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 7.3.1 due to prioritizing getting a visitor's IP from certain HTTP headers over PHP's REMOTE_ADDR. This makes it possible to bypass IP-based limitations in certain situations.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug restricted-site-access (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 7.3.2
Patched Version
  • 7.3.2
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