Solid Security <= 9.3.1 - IP Address Spoofing to Denial of Service

Use of Less Trusted Source
CVE CVE-2022-44593
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published June 20, 2024
Last Updated June 26, 2024
Researcher Snicco
Description

The Solid Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in all versions up to, and including, 9.3.1 due to insufficient IP address validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform a denial of service attack.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug better-wp-security (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 9.3.1
Patched Version
  • 9.3.2
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