CVE-2025-9376 (GCVE-0-2025-9376)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-28 11:16 – Updated: 2025-08-28 14:48
VLAI?
Title
Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection <= 11.58 - Insufficient Authorization to Unauthenticated Blocklist Bypass
Summary
The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to an insufficient capability check on the 'stopbadbots_check_wordpress_logged_in_cookie' function in all versions up to, and including, 11.58. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass blocklists, rate limits, and other plugin functionality.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sminozzi Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection Affected: * , ≤ 11.58 (semver)
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Credits
Jarno Vos
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