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Plugin · limit-login-attempts-reloaded
Limit Login Attempts
8 known vulnerabilities on record. Add your version above to see which ones affect you.
Aug 21, 2026Limit Login Attempts Reloaded: Does not compare logins against its username denylist case-insensitively and does not account for the account's email addressCVE-2026-18356 · fixed in 3.3.5 · reported by WPScanLow 3.7
The Limit Login Attempts Reloaded WordPress plugin before 3.3.5 does not compare logins against its username denylist case-insensitively and does not account for the account's email address, allowing an account an administrator intended to block from logging in to authenticate anyway.
Jan 11, 2024Limit Login Attempts Reloaded: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2023-6934 · affects up to 2.25.26 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
The Limit Login Attempts Reloaded plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in all versions up to, and including, 2.25.26 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Nov 27, 2023Limit Login Attempts Reloaded: Is missing authorization on the `toggle_auto_update` AJAX actionCVE-2023-5525 · fixed in 2.25.26 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.3
The Limit Login Attempts Reloaded WordPress plugin before 2.25.26 is missing authorization on the `toggle_auto_update` AJAX action, allowing any user with a valid nonce to toggle the auto-update status of the plugin.
May 2, 2023Limit Login Attempts: Does not sanitize and escape usernamesCVE-2023-1861 · affects up to 1.7.2 · reported by WPScanMedium 5.4
The Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin through 1.7.2 does not sanitize and escape usernames when outputting them back in the logs dashboard, which could allow any authenticated users, such as subscriber to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
Jun 27, 2022Limit Login Attempts: Does not sanitise and escape some of its settingsCVE-2022-1029 · fixed in 4.0.72 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.8
The Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin before 4.0.72 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, leading to malicious users with administrator privileges to store malicious Javascript code leading to Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_html is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Sep 20, 2021Limit Login Attempts: Does not escape the IP addresses (which can be controlled by attacker via headers suchCVE-2021-24657 · fixed in 4.0.50 · reported by WPScanMedium 6.1
The Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin before 4.0.50 does not escape the IP addresses (which can be controlled by attacker via headers such as X-Forwarded-For) of attempted logins before outputting them in the reports table, leading to an Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.
Dec 21, 2020LimitLoginAttempts.php in the limit-login-attempts-reloaded plugin before 2.17.4 for WordPress allows a bypass of (per IP address) rate limits because the X-ForCVE-2020-35590 · fixed in 2.17.4 · reported by MITRECritical 9.8
LimitLoginAttempts.php in the limit-login-attempts-reloaded plugin before 2.17.4 for WordPress allows a bypass of (per IP address) rate limits because the X-Forwarded-For header can be forged. When the plugin is configured to accept an arbitrary header for the client source IP address, a malicious user is not limited to perform a brute force attack, because the client IP header accepts any arbitrary string. When randomizing the header input, the login count does not ever reach the maximum allowed retries.
Dec 21, 2020The limit-login-attempts-reloaded plugin before 2.17.4 for WordPress allows wp-admin/options-general.php?page=limit-login-attempts&tab= XSS.CVE-2020-35589 · fixed in 2.17.4 · reported by MITREMedium 5.4
The limit-login-attempts-reloaded plugin before 2.17.4 for WordPress allows wp-admin/options-general.php?page=limit-login-attempts&tab= XSS. A malicious user can cause an administrator user to supply dangerous content to the vulnerable page, which is then reflected back to the user and executed by the web browser. The most common mechanism for delivering malicious content is to include it as a parameter in a URL that is posted publicly or e-mailed directly to victims.
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