What is CVE-2025-9376?

CVE-2025-9376 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sminozzi Block Bad Bots And Stop Crawlers Spiders Anti Spam Protection, classified under Incorrect Authorization. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-08-28.

How severe is CVE-2025-9376?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Sminozzi Block Bad Bots And Stop Crawlers Spiders Anti Spam Protection

CVE-2025-9376

The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to an insufficient capability check on the 'stopbadbots_check_wordpress_logged_in_cookie' function in all versions up to, and including, 11.58. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass blocklists, rate limits, and other plugin functionality.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.003 (25.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

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

Affected products

Sminozzi Block Bad Bots And Stop Crawlers Spiders Anti Spam Protection — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-9376?: CVE-2025-9376 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sminozzi Block Bad Bots And Stop Crawlers Spiders Anti Spam Protection, classified under Incorrect Authorization. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-08-28.
How severe is CVE-2025-9376?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.