CVE-2020-35590

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-35590
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-21 07:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-22 20:01:00 UTC
DescriptionLimitLoginAttempts.php in the limit-login-attempts-reloaded plugin before 2.17.4 for WordPress allows a bypass of (per IP address) rate limits because the X-Forwarded-For header can be forged. When the plugin is configured to accept an arbitrary header for the client source IP address, a malicious user is not limited to perform a brute force attack, because the client IP header accepts any arbitrary string. When randomizing the header input, the login count does not ever reach the maximum allowed retries.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-307

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Limitloginattempts Limit Login Attempts Reloaded All All All All
Application Limitloginattempts Limit Login Attempts Reloaded All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Limit Login Attempts Reloaded – Plugin Directory — WordPress MISC wordpress.org Product, Third Party Advisory
WordPress Plugin Limit Login Attempts Reloaded - Multiple Vulnerabilities - The Tales of N4nj0 MISC n4nj0.github.io Third Party Advisory
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