CVE-2025-1361

IP2Location Country Blocker <= 2.38.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure via admin_init Function

The IP2Location Country Blocker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Regular Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.38.8 due to missing capability checks on the admin_init() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view the plugin's settings.

Affected

ip2location · IP2Location Country Blocker

CVSS v3.1 NVD

5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3.1 WORDFENCE

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS

1.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 70th percentile

Nuclei

high · CWE-862

Published

2025-02-22

Updated

2026-04-08

Nuclei templates (1)

• projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-1361.yaml

Security advisories

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b63bc2b6-1abc-4cfa-a7e5-3995640…
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3244193
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ip2location-country-blocker/trunk/ip2location-…
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/ip2location-country-blocker/#developers

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry