Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-1614 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in Wp-Email Project Wp-Email

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
wp-email-project
CWE-639

Summary

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.