iQ Block Country <= 1.2.13 - Protection Bypass due to IP Spoofing

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2022-1762
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published May 17, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf
Description

The iQ Block Country WordPress plugin through 1.2.13 does not properly checks HTTP headers in order to validate the origin IP address, allowing threat actors to bypass it's block feature by spoofing the headers.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug iq-block-country (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.13
Patched Version
  • 1.2.17
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