Report for IP: 166.88.178.164

Threat LevelCRITICAL80/1003 rule types across 3 attack categories
3 incidents on record · 3 rule types · active attack detected · last seen 9d ago
PTR 166-88-178-164.ips.acedatacenter.com

Attack Analysis

Geo-Blocked Country
This IP was blocked purely based on its country of origin — the site owner has restricted access from this IP's geographic location due to a pattern of unwanted traffic from that region. This does not necessarily mean the specific IP itself has attacked anything; it reflects a blanket country-level policy.
WordPress REST API Route-Confusion Exploit (wp2shell)
This IP attempted the "wp2shell" exploit chain (CVE-2026-63030 / CVE-2026-60137) — a WordPress core REST API vulnerability where the /batch/v1 endpoint's route dispatch can be confused into bypassing authentication, then chained with a SQL injection for unauthenticated remote code execution. Publicly weaponized since July 2026 with automated exploit toolkits circulating on GitHub. Patched in WordPress core 7.0.2 and 6.9.5 — any unpatched site remains fully exposed to this pre-auth RCE.
Bad Bot Flood
This IP generated over 20 HTTP 4xx errors in 60 seconds using a User-Agent identified as a bad bot (scraper, headless browser, or attack proxy). The high error rate indicates automated probing for vulnerabilities while trying to appear as generic traffic. Legitimate services respect robots.txt and do not flood servers with errors.

Reports (3)

Date Severity Description
27 Oct 2026 - 16:56 high Web: Bad bot 4xx flood — 20+ errors in 60s
27 Oct 2026 - 16:55 medium Query Guard — Other Wp2shell Batch Route Cve202663030
27 Oct 2026 - 16:55 low Geo Blocker — Country Match