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

5.3
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2022-1762
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published May 17, 2022
Last Updated December 27, 2022
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.

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Vulnerability Details for iQ Block Country

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug iq-block-country (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.2.17, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.13
Patched Version
  • 1.2.17

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