WordPress plugin · limit-login-attempts-reloaded
Is Limit Login Attempts Security safe?
2 flaws affect the current version.
The newest release on wordpress.org, 3.3.10, is inside the affected range of 2 records, so there may be no fix yet. Check the changelog; if it doesn’t mention the fix, deactivate it until it does.
- Flaws on record
- 8
- High or critical
- 1
- Exploited
- none
- Current version
- 3.3.10
- Last updated
- Sep 23, 2026
- Active installs
- 1,000,000+
Every recorded flaw
- 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
- Jan 11, 2024Limit Login Attempts Reloaded: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2023-6934 · affects up to 2.25.26 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- 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
- May 2, 2023Limit Login Attempts: Does not sanitize and escape usernamesCVE-2023-1861 · affects up to 1.7.2 · reported by WPScan29% oddsMedium 5.4
- 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
- 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 WPScan1.6% oddsMedium 6.1
- 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 MITRE4.3% oddsCritical 9.8
- 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
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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