Ad suppression via spoofed click-tracking IP
Published Jul 27, 2026 · Updated Jul 27, 2026
Broken access control in Ad Invalid Click Protector 1.3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to suppress ads for chosen visitor IPs. The click-tracking AJAX endpoint trusts a client-supplied IP address when updating the blocked-IP list instead of deriving the address server-side. No authentication or user interaction is required; forged tracking requests can poison the list with arbitrary victim IPs and prevent ads from being shown to them.
Summary
What happened
Broken access control in Ad Invalid Click Protector 1.3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to suppress ads for chosen visitor IPs. The click-tracking AJAX endpoint trusts a client-supplied IP address when updating the blocked-IP list instead of deriving the address server-side. No authentication or user interaction is required; forged tracking requests can poison the list with arbitrary victim IPs and prevent ads from being shown to them.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-65445
- Published
- Jul 27, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 27, 2026
- Vendor
- Saumya Majumder
- Product
- Ad Invalid Click Protector (AICP)
- Classifications
- CWE-862, CAPEC-180
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 27, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 27, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=n/a <=1.3.0 changes=[{"at":"1.3.1","status":"unaffected"}]
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