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CVE-2022-3883
StopBadBots < 7.24 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Plugin Installation
Medium6.5EPSS 0.34%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- WPScan
Description
The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 7.24 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call it and install and activate arbitrary plugins from wordpress.org
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CWE-352 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-352 and its CVEs
- CWE-863 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-863 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (1)
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8695b157-abac-4aa6-a022-e3ae41c03544 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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