CVE-2024-0868 — The coreActivity: Activity Logging plugin for WordPress plugin before 2

The coreActivity: Activity Logging plugin for WordPress plugin before 2.1 retrieved IP addresses of requests via headers such X-FORWARDED to log them, allowing users to spoof them by providing an arbitrary value

01What is this vulnerability?

The coreActivity: Activity Logging plugin for WordPress plugin before 2.1 retrieved IP addresses of requests via headers such X-FORWARDED to log them, allowing users to spoof them by providing an arbitrary value

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	coreActivity: Activity Logging plugin for WordPress	0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-04-17T05:00:02.186Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-09T20:03:49.776Z

09References

• wpscan.com — https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bb7c2d2b-cdfe-433b-96cf-714e71d12b22/