THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2022-0949
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2022-0949

Block And Stop Bad Bots vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
7.9%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Stopbadbots
Affected product
Block And Stop Bad Bots
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2022-04-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2022-0949

  • Confirm whether Stopbadbots Block And Stop Bad Bots is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-0949.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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