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
References
CVE
Classification
Type
SPOOFING
OWASP top 10
CWE
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Erwan LR (WPScan)
Submitter
Erwan LR (WPScan)
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
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)