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GHSA-GJM9-6XP8-G72W

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-12-12 18:30 – Updated: 2022-12-14 21:30

Details

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

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  "modified": "2022-12-14T21:30:17Z",
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CVE-2022-3883 (GCVE-0-2022-3883)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-12 17:54 – Updated: 2025-04-22 15:12

Title

StopBadBots < 7.24 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Plugin Installation

Summary

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

WPScan

References

URL

Tags

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)

Credits

Lana Codes

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-GJM9-6XP8-G72W

CVE-2022-3883 (GCVE-0-2022-3883)

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