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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8695b157-abac-4a… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
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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