CVE-2022-1614 (GCVE-0-2022-1614)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-06-20 10:25 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:10
VLAI
Title
WP-Email < 2.69.0 - Anti-Spam Protection Bypass via IP Spoofing
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown WP-EMail Affected: 2.69.0 , < 2.69.0 (custom)
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Credits
Daniel Ruf
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