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1 vulnerability by stopbadbots_project
CVE-2022-3883 (GCVE-0-2022-3883)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-12 17:54 – Updated: 2025-04-22 15:12
VLAI?
Title
StopBadBots < 7.24 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Plugin Installation
Summary
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
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection |
Affected:
0 , < 7.24
(custom)
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Credits
Lana Codes
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