Vulnerability in IP2Location Country Blocker — CVE-2026-82530

What to do now

Update IP2Location Country Blocker to 2.45.0 or later.

Affected versions

• Everything before 2.45.0

IP2Location Country Blocker plugin for WordPress before 2.45.0 contains an access control bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to circumvent IP-based restrictions by forging the X-Real-IP HTTP header. Attackers can set the X-Real-IP header to an allowlisted IP address to bypass page, link, or site-wide access restrictions and access otherwise-blocked resources.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/ip2location-country-blocker/#developers
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ip2location-country-blocker-access-control-bypass-via-x-real-ip-header

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