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WordPress Plugin: wp-email: CVE-2022-1614: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 30, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The WP-EMail WordPress plugin before 2.69.0 prioritizes getting a visitor's IP from certain HTTP headers over PHP's REMOTE_ADDR, which makes it possible to bypass IP-based anti-spamming restrictions.

Solution

wp-email-plugin-cve-2022-1614
Title
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