vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: miniorange-malware-protection: CVE-2023-52176: Protection Mechanism Failure

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 29, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The Malware Scanner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.1 due to insufficient IP address validation and use of user-supplied HTTP headers as a primary method for IP retrieval. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass IP blocking functionality.

Solution

miniorange-malware-protection-plugin-cve-2023-52176
Title
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