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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-51872 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.
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History

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-01-13T16:50:23.117Z

Reserved: 2022-12-16T01:31:35.829Z

Link: CVE-2022-4537

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:45.552Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-05-09T03:15:09.267

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:35:26.953

Link: CVE-2022-4537

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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