CVE-2022-1165

CVE-2022-1165: Blackhole for Bad Bots < 3.3.2 - Arbitrary IP Address Blocking via IP Spoofing

Vendor Unknown
Product Blackhole for Bad Bots
Weakness CWE-639 · IDOR
Published April 4, 2022
Last update August 2, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Blackhole for Bad Bots WordPress plugin before 3.3.2 uses headers such as CF-CONNECTING-IP, CLIENT-IP etc to determine the IP address of requests hitting the blackhole URL, which allows them to be spoofed. This could result in blocking arbitrary IP addresses, such as legitimate/good search engine crawlers / bots. This could also be abused by competitors to cause damage related to visibility in search engines, can be used to bypass arbitrary blocks caused by this plugin, block any visitor or even the administrator and even more.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 4, 2022 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated