CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-1165

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2022-04-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-04-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-639

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• plugin-planet blackhole for bad bots (< 3.3.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key weakness

References