CVE-2023-4281

Activity Log < 2.8.8 - IP Spoofing

Severity Score

5.3

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

This Activity Log WordPress plugin before 2.8.8 retrieves client IP addresses from potentially untrusted headers, allowing an attacker to manipulate its value. This may be used to hide the source of malicious traffic.

Este complemento de WordPress de registro de actividad anterior a 2.8.8 recupera direcciones IP de clientes de encabezados potencialmente no confiables, lo que permite a un atacante manipular su valor. Esto puede usarse para ocultar la fuente del tráfico malicioso.

The Activity Log plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This is due to insufficient restrictions on where the IP Address information is being retrieved for request logging. Unauthenticated attackers can supply the X-Forwarded-For header with with a different IP Address that will be logged instead of the users true IP address.

*Credits: Bartlomiej Marek and Tomasz Swiadek, WPScan

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-08-09 CVE Reserved
2023-09-01 CVE Published
2023-09-24 First Exploit
2024-08-02 CVE Updated
2024-12-17 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-348: Use of Less Trusted Source

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/b0marek/CVE-2023-4281	2023-09-24
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f5ea6c8a-6b07-4263-a1be-dd033f078d49	2024-08-02

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Activity Log Project Search vendor "Activity Log Project"		Activity Log Search vendor "Activity Log Project" for product "Activity Log"				< 2.8.8 Search vendor "Activity Log Project" for product "Activity Log" and version " < 2.8.8"		wordpress		Affected