diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2ae56d99..d744dba0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ ver. 0.10.6-dev (20??/??/??) - development edition
   so would bother the action interpolation
 * `action.d/*-ipset*.conf`: several ipset actions fixed (no timeout per default anymore), so no discrepancy
   between ipset and fail2ban (removal from ipset will be managed by fail2ban only, gh-2703)
+* `action.d/cloudflare.conf`: fixed `actionunban` (considering new-line chars and optionally real json-parsing
+   with `jq`, gh-2140, gh-2656)
 * `filter.d/common.conf`: avoid substitute of default values in related `lt_*` section, `__prefix_line`
   should be interpolated in definition section (inside the filter-config, gh-2650)
 * `filter.d/courier-smtp.conf`: prefregex extended to consider port in log-message (gh-2697)
diff --git a/config/action.d/cloudflare.conf b/config/action.d/cloudflare.conf
index 1c48a37f..361cb177 100644
--- a/config/action.d/cloudflare.conf
+++ b/config/action.d/cloudflare.conf
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #
 # Please set jail.local's permission to 640 because it contains your CF API key.
 #
-# This action depends on curl.
+# This action depends on curl (and optionally jq).
 # Referenced from http://www.normyee.net/blog/2012/02/02/adding-cloudflare-support-to-fail2ban by NORM YEE
 #
 # To get your CloudFlare API Key: https://www.cloudflare.com/a/account/my-account
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ actioncheck =
 # API v1
 #actionban = curl -s -o /dev/null https://www.cloudflare.com/api_json.html -d 'a=ban' -d 'tkn=<cftoken>' -d 'email=<cfuser>' -d 'key=<ip>'
 # API v4
-actionban = curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H 'X-Auth-Email: <cfuser>' -H 'X-Auth-Key: <cftoken>' \
-            -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "mode": "block", "configuration": { "target": "ip", "value": "<ip>" } }' \
-            https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/user/firewall/access_rules/rules
+actionban = curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST <_cf_api_prms> \
+            -d '{"mode":"block","configuration":{"target":"ip","value":"<ip>"},"notes":"Fail2Ban <name>"}' \
+            <_cf_api_url>
 
 # Option:  actionunban
 # Notes.:  command executed when unbanning an IP. Take care that the
@@ -58,9 +58,14 @@ actionban = curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H 'X-Auth-Email: <cfuser>' -H 'X-Auth-
 # API v1
 #actionunban = curl -s -o /dev/null https://www.cloudflare.com/api_json.html -d 'a=nul' -d 'tkn=<cftoken>' -d 'email=<cfuser>' -d 'key=<ip>'
 # API v4
-actionunban = curl -s -o /dev/null -X DELETE -H 'X-Auth-Email: <cfuser>' -H 'X-Auth-Key: <cftoken>' \
-              https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/user/firewall/access_rules/rules/$(curl -s -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Email: <cfuser>' -H 'X-Auth-Key: <cftoken>' \
-              'https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/user/firewall/access_rules/rules?mode=block&configuration_target=ip&configuration_value=<ip>&page=1&per_page=1' | cut -d'"' -f6)
+actionunban = id=$(curl -s -X GET <_cf_api_prms> \
+                   "<_cf_api_url>?mode=block&configuration_target=ip&configuration_value=<ip>&page=1&per_page=1&notes=Fail2Ban%%20<name>" \
+                   | { jq -r '.result[0].id' 2>/dev/null || tr -d '\n' | sed -nE 's/^.*"result"\s*:\s*\[\s*\{\s*"id"\s*:\s*"([^"]+)".*$/\1/p'; })
+              if [ -z "$id" ]; then echo "<name>: id for <ip> cannot be found"; exit 0; fi;
+              curl -s -o /dev/null -X DELETE <_cf_api_prms> "<_cf_api_url>/$id"
+
+_cf_api_url = https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/user/firewall/access_rules/rules
+_cf_api_prms = -H 'X-Auth-Email: <cfuser>' -H 'X-Auth-Key: <cftoken>' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
 
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