Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk <= 2.120 - IP Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass

Use of Less Trusted Source
CVE CVE-2023-5239
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 6, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Bartłomiej Marek
Description

The Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 2.120. This is due to insufficient restrictions on where the IP Address information is being retrieved for request logging and login restrictions. Attackers can supply the X-Forwarded-For header with with a different IP Address that will be logged and can be used to bypass settings that may have blocked out an IP address from logging in.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug security-malware-firewall (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.120
Patched Version
  • 2.121
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