WP-Email < 2.69.0 - Anti-Spam Protection Bypass via IP Spoofing
CVE-2022-1614

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
WP-email
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 June 2022

What is CVE-2022-1614?

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.

Affected Version(s)

WP-EMail 2.69.0

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a5940d0b-6b88-4418-87e2-...
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Daniel Ruf
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