Is block-and-stop-bad-bots (WordPress plugin) vulnerable?

WordPress block-and-stop-bad-bots has 2 known advisories in the phpwarden feed. Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28.

2advisories

2critical

0on CISA KEV

0no fix recorded

CVE	Title	Severity	CVSS	Affected	Fixed in
CVE-2022-0949	The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 6.930 does not properly sanitise	critical	9.8	`<6.930`	`6.930`
CVE-2021-25070	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 r	critical	9.8	`<6.88`	`6.88`

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# PHP projects (recommended)
composer require --dev phpwarden/phpwarden
# then
vendor/bin/phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

# or, without Composer
pipx install phpwarden   &&   phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

Or keep it checked automatically with the GitHub Action or a nightly cron; see WordPress docs.

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