Known vulnerabilities in IP2Location Country Blocker

Blocks unwanted visitors from accessing your frontend (blog pages) or backend (admin area) by countries or proxy servers.

7Reported vulnerabilities

6.5Highest CVSS score

2.44.0Latest version

30,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update IP2Location Country Blocker to 2.38.9 or later. 6 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: August 17, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.0.4 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2023-37865	Medium 6.5	0.4%	2.29.1 and earlier	`2.29.2`	July 10, 2023
WF-2bde5862-1b7c-4e58-b13f-c8f347593c51	Medium 6.4	—	Before 2.26.9	`2.26.9`	February 7, 2022
CVE-2025-1361	Medium 5.3	1.3%	Before 2.38.9	`2.38.9`	February 22, 2025
CVE-2024-22294	Medium 5.3	0.5%	2.33.3 and earlier	`2.33.4`	January 17, 2024
CVE-2022-50961	Medium 5.1	0.2%	—	—	May 10, 2026
CVE-2025-24731	Medium 4.4	0.3%	2.38.3 and earlier	`2.38.4`	January 24, 2025
CVE-2024-32443	Medium 4.3	0.2%	2.34.2 and earlier	`2.34.3`	April 12, 2024

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.