WP-EMail <= 2.68.2 - Spam Protection Bypass

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

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

CVE	CVE-2022-1614
CVSS	Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published	May 30, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Daniel Ruf

Description

The WP-EMail WordPress plugin before 2.69.0 prioritizes getting a visitor's IP from certain HTTP headers over PHP's REMOTE_ADDR, which makes it possible to bypass IP-based anti-spamming restrictions.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	wp-email (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 2.69.0
Patched Version	2.69.0

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