The Web Application Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 2.1.2. 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 or country from logging in.

Related CVEs

CVE-2022-4539

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-9p7x-652m-pw9q

Published

August 31, 2024 12:30 PM

Last Modified

August 31, 2024 12:30 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 18, 2025 6:25 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.