IP Ban
IP Ban has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2014; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 8.8, and the most serious one scores 8.8 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 1 high.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).
The one issue recorded for IP Ban has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.
All of these findings were reported by Kenneth Jepsen. IP Ban is installed on roughly 2,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 4.7.35.
CVE-2014-9413IP Ban <= 1.2.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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IP Ban
Author
Sandor Kovacs
UPDATE1: For the admin user the plugin it’s not active. UPDATE2: Added Ip Range feature for ip list. IP Ban is a security plugin, protects your site accessing from unwanted ip addresses or user agents. You can add ip addresses or user agents creating your own black list. It also good to protect your site from unwanted crawlers, which uses your resource and bandwidth. Just add an ip address or user agent and things will happened. After the plugin activation, in the SETTINGS menu you’ll see the Simple IP BAN submenu. Here you have 3 textareas: Add ip address or range here. Add user agents here. Define external url . All spammers will be redirected to this url.
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