SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

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 and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint…

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 7.67%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (7.67%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 6.930 does not properly sanitise and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
7.67% probability · 94th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-89
Affected
stopbadbots/block and stop bad bots
Source
contact@wpscan.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.