IP2Location Country Blocker <= 2.26.4 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Country Ban

7.1
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2021-25095
CVSS 7.1 (High)
Publicly Published January 6, 2022
Last Updated November 23, 2022
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

Description

The IP2Location Country Blocker WordPress plugin before 2.26.5 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in the ip2location_country_blocker_save_rules AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call it and block arbitrary country, or block all of them at once, preventing users from accessing the frontend.

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Vulnerability Details for IP2Location Country Blocker

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ip2location-country-blocker (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.26.5, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.26.4
Patched Version
  • 2.26.5

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