Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection <= 11.58 - Insufficient Authorization to Unauthenticated Blocklist Bypass

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 an insufficient capability check on the 'stopbadbots_check_wordpress_logged_in_cookie' function in all versions up to, and including, 11.58. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass blocklists, rate limits, and other plugin functionality.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

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 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-863 and its CVEs

Affected products

• sminozzi · Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection

  • affected ≤ 11.58

References (4)

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8d6b0d86-3cb4-4723-b677-141c604f00cc?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stopbadbots/trunk/stopbadbots.php#L1958 (opens in a new tab)
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3350927/ (opens in a new tab)
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3351023/ (opens in a new tab)

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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2025-9376](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2025-9376.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-9376)

Record last updated 8 Apr 2026, 17:06 UTC.