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WordPress Plugin: iq-block-country: CVE-2022-1762: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 17, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

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.

Solution

iq-block-country-plugin-cve-2022-1762
Title
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