🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2022-4529

MEDIUM 5.3

Security, Antivirus, Firewall – S.A.F <= 2.3.5 - IP Address Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass

CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Security, Antivirus, Firewall – S.A.F plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 2.3.5. This is due to insufficient restrictions on where the IP Address information is being retrieved for request logging and login restrictions. Attackers can supply the X-Forwarded-For header with with a different IP Address that will be logged and can be used to bypass settings that may have blocked out an IP address from logging in.

CWE CWE-348
Vendor msoftplugins
Product security, antivirus, firewall – s.a.f
Published Sep 5, 2024
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

msoftplugins / Security, Antivirus, Firewall – S.A.F
0 ≤ 2.3.5

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cd177a43-6059-4125-9408-1090b9a54117?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/security-antivirus-firewall/trunk/includes/wptsafEnv.php#L68

Credits

Mohammadreza Rashidi