CVE-2022-1165

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.

CVSS v3.1

9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

EPSS

1.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 75th percentile

Published

2022-04-04

Updated

2024-08-02

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10d85913-ea8c-4c2e-a32e-fa61cf191710

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2022-1164
• CVE-2022-1166
• CVE-2022-1163
• CVE-2022-1167
• CVE-2022-1162
• CVE-2022-1168