CSRF in Stopbadbots Project

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 authenticated users, such as subscriber to call it and install and activate arbitrary plugins from wordpress.org

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

EPSS: 0.003 (25.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

  • contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-3883?
CVE-2022-3883 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Stopbadbots Project, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-12-12.
How severe is CVE-2022-3883?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-3883 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.