Titan Anti-spam & Security: A security weakness
Titan Anti-spam & Security is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Titan Anti-spam & Security
- Plugin slug
titan-anti-spam-&-security- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 16, 2022
This CVE was published Sep 16, 2022 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Titan Anti-spam & Security to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Titan Anti-spam & Security WordPress plugin before 7.3.1 does not properly checks HTTP headers in order to validate the origin IP address, allowing threat actors to bypass it's block feature by spoofing the headers.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N