CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-1581
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-11-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Description
The WP-Polls WordPress plugin before 2.76.0 prioritizes getting a visitor's IP from certain HTTP headers over PHP's REMOTE_ADDR, which makes it possible to bypass IP-based limitations to vote in certain situations.
Affected configurations
• wp-polls project wp-polls (< 2.76.0)
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c1896ab9-9585-40e2-abbf-ef5153b3c6b2 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.hightechdad.com/2009/12/21/warning-wp-polls-wordpress-poll-plugin-can-be-exploited/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c1896ab9-9585-40e2-abbf-ef5153b3c6b2 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.hightechdad.com/2009/12/21/warning-wp-polls-wordpress-poll-plugin-can-be-exploited/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory