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CVE-2022-1165: The Blackhole for Bad Bots WordPress plugin before 3.3.2 uses headers such as CF-CONNECTING-IP, CLIENT-IP etc to determine the IP address of requests hitting the blackhole URL, which allows them to be

critical Affects blackhole-for-bad-bots (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The Blackhole for Bad Bots WordPress plugin before 3.3.2 uses headers such as CF-CONNECTING-IP, CLIENT-IP etc to determine the IP address of requests hitting the blackhole URL, which allows them to be

Package
blackhole-for-bad-bots (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<3.3.2
Fixed in
3.3.2
Severity
critical  CVSS 9.1
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 2% (76.7th percentile)
Published
2022-04-04
Source
nvd

References

CWE-639
NVD recordblackhole-for-bad-bots (WordPress plugin) advisories

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