CVE-2025-10745 (GCVE-0-2025-10745)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-26 03:25 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:10
VLAI
Title
Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots <= 3.4.8 - Unauthenticated Protection Mechanism Bypass
Summary
The Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Blocking Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.8. This is due to a site-wide “secret key” being deterministically generated from a constant character set using md5() and base64_encode() and then stored in the `banhammer_secret_key` option. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the plugin’s logging and blocking by appending a GET parameter named `banhammer-process_{SECRET}` where `{SECRET}` is the predictable value, thereby causing Banhammer to abort its protections for that request.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-26 19:32 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-330 - Use of Insufficiently Random Values
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2306 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
specialk Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.4.8 (semver)
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Credits
Jonas Benjamin Friedli
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