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CVE-2021-25070 (GCVE-0-2021-25070)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-28 17:22 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:56
VLAI
Title
WP Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.88 - Unauthenticated SQLi
Summary
The Block Bad Bots WordPress plugin before 6.88 does not properly sanitise and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to record logs, leading to an SQL Injection issue
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Krzysztof Zając
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