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CVE-2024-4355: Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection <= 10.23 - Missing Authorization to Information Expsoure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

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 a missing capability check on the stopbadbots_get_ajax_data() function in all versions up to, and including, 10.23. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to expose visitor data.

Affected products

• sminozzi Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection: through 10.23

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3094528
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/stopbadbots/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c77d94ae-528d-4525-b16d-96529bee08c0?source=cve
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/stopbadbots/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c77d94ae-528d-4525-b16d-96529bee08c0?source=cve

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