CVE-2022-4537

Medium

Description

The Hide My WP Ghost – Security Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 5.0.18. 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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductWpplugins Hide My Wp Ghost
PublishedMay 9, 2023
First seenMay 9, 2023
Weakness typeCWE-348CWE-348

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
wpplugins hide_my_wp_ghostv ≤ 5.0.18—

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