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CVE-2022-4539 Design/Logic Flaw

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Remediate Within 6 Months

CVE Information

Original CVE data

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The Web Application Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 2.1.2. 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 or country from logging in.

CWE: CWE-348
CVSS v2-
CVSS v35.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0e99531c-8742-4f91-8525-65bb3cb06644?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3055548/web-application-firewall/trunk/helper/utility.php
Affected Vendors

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOnengine

Design/Logic Flaw

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOnengine
CVSS v26.4
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS v36.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
MITRE CWE Top 25

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Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

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Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

T1190 - Exploit Public-Facing Application
T1036 - Masquerading

Compliance Impact

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

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Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application

WASC-8 - Cross Site Scripting