CVE-2025-1361 (GCVE-0-2025-1361)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-22 08:22 – Updated: 2025-02-24 16:16
VLAI?
Title
IP2Location Country Blocker <= 2.38.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure via admin_init Function
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ip2location IP2Location Country Blocker Affected: * , ≤ 2.38.8 (semver)
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Credits
abrahack
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