CVE-2026-82530: IP2LOCATION Country Blocker

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• IP2LOCATION IP2LOCATION Country Blocker: before 2.45.0 (fixed in 2.45.0)

Published 2026-09-09. Last modified 2026-09-09.