CVE-2022-3883: 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 authenticate

medium Affects stopbadbots (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2022-12-12; advisory modified 2026-06-17.

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 authenticate

Package: stopbadbots (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions: <7.24
Fixed in: 7.24
Severity: medium CVSS 6.5
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (27.7th percentile)
Published: 2022-12-12
Source: nvd

References

CWE-352 CWE-863

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