Titan Anti Spam & Security <= 7.3.0 — IP Spoofing to Protection Bypass
CVE-2022-2877Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤7.3.0Update to 7.3.1 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Titan Anti-spam & Security – Brute Force Protection, 2FA & Spam Filter anti-spam
- Affected≤ 7.3.0
- Patched in7.3.1
Update to 7.3.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 7.3.0. Version 7.3.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Titan Anti-spam & Security – Brute Force Protection, 2FA & Spam Filter.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 7.3.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Titan Anti-spam & Security – Brute Force Protection, 2FA & Spam Filter to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Daniel Ruf.
The Titan Anti Spam & Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection bypass due to improper IP validation in versions up to, and including, 7.3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to download the logs of the plugin which can contain sensitive information
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Titan Anti-spam & Security – Brute Force Protection, 2FA & Spam Filter
All 3| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤7.3.7Update to 7.3.8 | CVE-2024-38777 | |
| Medium6.1 | Cross-Site Scripting <4.2Update to 4.2 | — |
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤7.3.7Update to 7.3.8
- Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
<4.2Update to 4.2
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.