{"id":"CVE-2026-1675","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-1675","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:50:55.854Z","title":"The Advanced Country Blocker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authorization Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.1 due to the use of a predictable default value for the secret bypass key created during installation without requiring…","description":"The Advanced Country Blocker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authorization Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.1 due to the use of a predictable default value for the secret bypass key created during installation without requiring users to change it. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the geolocation blocking mechanism by appending the key to any URL on sites where the administrator has not changed the default value.","published":"2026-02-07T09:16:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:16:18.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-1188"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00385,"percentile":0.32278,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-country-blocker/tags/2.3.1/advanced-country-blocking.php#L278","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-country-blocker/tags/2.3.1/advanced-country-blocking.php#L336","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-country-blocker/tags/2.3.1/advanced-country-blocking.php#L420","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3455225/","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30747988-83f9-41f9-9bc5-1f533bc4cb94?source=cve","source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1675","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}