WP-Polls Plugin up to 2.75.x on WordPress HTTP Header REMOTE_ADDR authorization

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in WP-Polls Plugin up to 2.75.x on WordPress. This impacts an unknown function of the component HTTP Header Handler. Such manipulation of the argument REMOTE_ADDR leads to authorization. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2022-1581. The attack may be performed from remote. In addition, an exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in WP-Polls Plugin up to 2.75.x on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component HTTP Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument REMOTE_ADDR with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-639. The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The WP-Polls WordPress plugin before 2.76.0 prioritizes getting a visitor's IP from certain HTTP headers over PHP's REMOTE_ADDR, which makes it possible to bypass IP-based limitations to vote in certain situations.

The weakness was presented 11/21/2022. The advisory is available at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-1581 since 05/04/2022. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

The exploit is available at hightechdad.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 2.76.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• WordPress Plugin

Name

• WP-Polls Plugin

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.42
• 2.43
• 2.44
• 2.45
• 2.46
• 2.47
• 2.48
• 2.49
• 2.50
• 2.51
• 2.52
• 2.53
• 2.54
• 2.55
• 2.56
• 2.57
• 2.58
• 2.59
• 2.60
• 2.61
• 2.62
• 2.63
• 2.64
• 2.65
• 2.66
• 2.67
• 2.68
• 2.69
• 2.70
• 2.71
• 2.72
• 2.73
• 2.74
• 2.75

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Accepted

• Submit #52579: Http Header Injection in [User Login History] wordpress plugin (by rezaduty)

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