CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-4550

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Published: Feb 27, 2023 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The User Activity WordPress plugin through 1.0.1 checks headers such as the X-Forwarded-For to retrieve the IP address of the request, which could lead to IP spoofing

Weakness

This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
User_activity User_activity_project * 1.0.1 (including)

References