CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-4537

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-05-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-05-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-345, CWE-348

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.

Affected configurations

• wpplugins hide my wp ghost (<= 5.0.18)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity weakness
  • CWE-348 Use of Less Trusted Source weakness

References