CVE-2015-6829
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in the getip function in wp-limit-login-attempts.php in the WP Limit Login Attempts plugin before 2.0.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) X-Forwarded-For or (2) Client-IP HTTP header.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciphercoin | wp_limit_login_attempts | {"endIncluding":"2.0.0"} | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/05/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/06/3
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1239492/wp-limit-login-attempts
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-injection-vulnerability-9
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8178
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/05/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/06/3
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1239492/wp-limit-login-attempts
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-injection-vulnerability-9
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8178
CWEs
CWE-89
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.