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.
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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. | |
Title | Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection <= 11.58 - Insufficient Authorization to Unauthenticated Blocklist Bypass | |
Weaknesses | CWE-863 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published: 2025-08-28T11:16:21.743Z
Updated: 2025-08-28T14:48:14.973Z
Reserved: 2025-08-22T23:42:07.806Z
Link: CVE-2025-9376

Updated: 2025-08-28T13:35:12.977Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-08-28T12:15:39.280
Modified: 2025-08-29T16:24:09.860
Link: CVE-2025-9376

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