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CVE-2022-0949: WP Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.930 - Unauthenticated SQLi

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

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

Affected products

• Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection: before 6.930 — fixed in 6.930

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection 6.930. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a0fbb79a-e160-49df-9cf2-18ab64ea66cb
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a0fbb79a-e160-49df-9cf2-18ab64ea66cb

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