Vulnerability · Published Apr 11, 2022 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2022-0949WP Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.930 - 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 7.7% (higher than 95% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei.

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)7.7%top 5.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Nuclei

Official description

The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 6.930 does not properly sanitise and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection

Affected products (as reported)

Weakness: CWE-89

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