IP2Location Country Blocker <= 2.26.5 - Arbitrary Country Ban via Cross-Site Request Forgery

7.1
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-25108
CVSS 7.1 (High)
Publicly Published January 6, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

Description

The IP2Location Country Blocker WordPress plugin before 2.26.6 does not have CSRF check in the ip2location_country_blocker_save_rules AJAX action, allowing attackers to make a logged in admin 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 2.26.6, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.26.5
Patched Version
  • 2.26.6

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