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WordPress Plugin: wp-cerber: CVE-2022-4100: Protection Mechanism Failure

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 30, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The WP Cerber Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Protection bypass in versions up to, and including 9.4 due to the plugin improperly checking for a visitor's IP address. This makes it possible for an attacker whose IP address has been blocked to bypass this control by setting the X-Forwarded-For: HTTP header to an IP Address that hasn't been blocked.

Solution

wp-cerber-plugin-cve-2022-4100
Title
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