What is GHSA-hxq7-w32x-hwx5?

GHSA-hxq7-w32x-hwx5 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. IP2Location Country Blocker plugin for WordPress before 2.45.0 contains an access control bypass...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-hxq7-w32x-hwx5 cover?

GHSA-hxq7-w32x-hwx5 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-82530. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-hxq7-w32x-hwx5?

GHSA-hxq7-w32x-hwx5 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-hxq7-w32x-hwx5MediumCVSS 5.3

IP2Location Country Blocker plugin for WordPress before 2.45.0 contains an access control bypass...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 9, 2026

Last Modified

September 9, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-82530 →

📋 Description

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.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82530
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ip2location-country-blocker/#developers
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ip2location-country-blocker-access-control-bypass-via-x-real-ip-header
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hxq7-w32x-hwx5