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
- Stopbadbots_project Stopbadbots
- Unknown Block Bad Bots And Stop Crawlers Spiders Anti Spam Protection — versions 0
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.