Limit Login Attempts Reloaded < 3.4.1 - Two-Factor Authentication Bypass via Malformed X-Forwarded-For Header
- Exploited
- No known exploitation
- Fix
- Fixed in 3.4.1
- Who is exposed
- Not reported
Do first: Upgrade to a fixed version: 3.4.1.
- Published
- Last modified
- FIRST's estimate of the chance attackers exploit it in the next 30 days, updated daily.What do these mean? →
- 0.18% · 7th percentile
- A 0-100 score for how much a CVE matters across the industry: exploitation, exposure, how widely the software is used, severity and whether a fix exists.What do these mean? →
- 12/100 · provisional
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: total
Summary
The Limit Login Attempts Reloaded WordPress plugin, before a fixed release, has a flaw in its two-factor authentication step that lets an attacker who already knows a protected user's password skip the second factor by sending a specially malformed request header. The attack can be carried out against a site running the plugin, and the bypass grants access to the account without the second factor.
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Read the original description
The Limit Login Attempts Security WordPress plugin before 3.4.1 does not confirm that its two-factor authentication step succeeded before completing a login and treats a failure to build that step as success, so an attacker who holds a protected user's password can bypass the second factor by sending a request header that breaks the step.
cve.now Index
- Exploitation0/40No signal
- Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Unknown: No advisory context yet
- Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
- Severity8.5/10CVSS 7.5, total technical impact per CISA
- No patch0/5No signal
What would change the score
- Would score about 67 if added to CISA KEV
- Would score about 62 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
- Would score about 31 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed
What to do
Upgrade to a fixed version: 3.4.1.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- Unknown Limit Login Attempts Security
fixed in 3.4.1
Evidence 1
- Exploit
Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about CVE-2026-118202
Is CVE-2026-118202 being exploited?
It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-118202?
Limit Login Attempts Security: before 3.4.1.Source: cve.now feed data
How do I fix CVE-2026-118202?
Upgrade to a fixed version: 3.4.1.Source: cve.now feed data