Plugin Exposes IP Addresses of Requests via X-FORWARDED Header
CVE-2024-0868

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Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Coreactivity: Activity Logging Plugin For WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 April 2024

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👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

The coreActivity: Activity Logging plugin for WordPress plugin before 2.1 retrieved IP addresses of requests via headers such X-FORWARDED to log them, allowing users to spoof them by providing an arbitrary value

Affected Version(s)

coreActivity: Activity Logging plugin for WordPress 0 < 2.1

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2024-0868 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bb7c2d2b-cdfe-433b-96cf-...
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Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Erwan LR (WPScan)
WPScan
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