Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection: Cross-site request forgery
Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection is affected by cross-site request forgery. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection
- Plugin slug
stopbadbots- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Dec 12, 2022
This CVE was published Dec 12, 2022 and is one of 4 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 7.24 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call it and install and activate arbitrary plugins from wordpress.org
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N