CVE-2022-3883

StopBadBots < 7.24 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Plugin Installation

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

Affected

Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection

CVSS v3.1 NVD

6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 26th percentile

Published

2022-12-12

Updated

2025-04-22

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8695b157-abac-4aa6-a022-e3ae41c03544

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry