Vulnerability CVE-2022-1165


Published: 2022-04-04

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.

Type:

CWE-639

(Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Plugin-planet -> Blackhole for bad bots 

 References:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2666486
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10d85913-ea8c-4c2e-a32e-fa61cf191710

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