Vulnerability · Published Mar 28, 2022 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2021-25070WP Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.88 - Unauthenticated SQLi

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity SQL injection in Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 76% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 24.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Block Bad Bots WordPress plugin before 6.88 does not properly sanitise and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to record logs, leading to an SQL Injection issue

Affected products (as reported)

Weakness: CWE-89

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