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Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

CVE-2022-1600

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

The YOP Poll WordPress plugin before 6.4.3 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.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

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.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published