WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

coreActivity < 2.1 - Unauthenticated IP Spoofing

Description

The plugin retrieved IP addresses of requests via headers such X-FORWARDED to log them, allowing users to spoof them by providing an arbitrary value

Proof of Concept

As unauthenticated: curl 'https://example.com/attacker' -H 'X-FORWARDED: 127.0.0.1'

Then view the logs and note that the plugin display the IP of the request as 127.0.0.1

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.1

References

Classification

Type
SPOOFING
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Erwan LR (WPScan)
Submitter
Erwan LR (WPScan)
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-03-27 (about 1 months ago)
Added
2024-03-27 (about 1 months ago)
Last Updated
2024-03-27 (about 1 months ago)

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