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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: stopbadbots: CVE-2021-24863: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 15, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The WP Block and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection Plugin StopBadBots WordPress plugin before 6.67 does not sanitise and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to save it, leading to a SQL injection

Solution

stopbadbots-plugin-cve-2021-24863
Title
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