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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-28 11:16 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:06
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-28 13:35 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2307 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Credits
Jarno Vos
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