Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection: SQL injection
Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection is affected by SQL injection. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can alter database queries and expose or modify WordPress data.
- Component
- Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection
- Plugin slug
block-and-stop-bad-bots- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 11, 2022
This CVE was published Apr 11, 2022 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 6.930 does not properly sanitise and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H