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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MITRE
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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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2020-12-21T07:15:14.177
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:27:39.530
Link: CVE-2020-35590
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