Hide My WP Ghost – Security Plugin <= 5.0.18 - IP Address Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 76% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The Hide My WP Ghost – Security Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 5.0.18. 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 from logging in.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected products
johndarrel · WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall