vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: security-malware-firewall: CVE-2023-5239: Use of Less Trusted Source

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 6, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

The Security and Malware scan by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 2.120. 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.

Solution

security-malware-firewall-plugin-cve-2023-5239
Title
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