LimitLoginAttempts.php in the limit-login-attempts-reloaded plugin before 2.17.4 for WordPress allows a bypass of (per IP address) rate limits because the X-Forwarded-For header can be forged. When the plugin is configured to accept an arbitrary header for the client source IP address, a malicious user is not limited to perform a brute force attack, because the client IP header accepts any arbitrary string. When randomizing the header input, the login count does not ever reach the maximum allowed retries.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-12-21T06:03:52

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:09:14.444Z

Reserved: 2020-12-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-35590

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-12-21T07:15:14.177

Modified: 2020-12-22T20:01:42.107

Link: CVE-2020-35590

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