CVE-2025-9376Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection <= 11.58 - Insufficient Authorization to Unauthenticated Blocklist Bypass
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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.
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.
- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-863
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 18, 2026
Affected products
sminozzi Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection sminozzi:block_bad_bots_and_stop_bad_bots_crawlers_and_spiders_and_anti_spam_protection (from the name) | through 11.58 | CNA record |
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8d6b0d86-3cb4-4723-b677-141c604f00cc?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stopbadbots/trunk/stopbadbots.php#L1958
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3350927/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3351023/
The CVE record on cve.org NVD's entry
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