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1 vulnerability found for Limit Login Attempts Security by Unknown

CVE-2026-18356 (GCVE-0-2026-18356)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-21 11:40
Modified
2026-08-21 12:46
Summary
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.
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