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WordPress Plugin: stopbadbots: CVE-2022-0949: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Mar 16, 2022

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 6.930 does not properly sanitise and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection

Solution

stopbadbots-plugin-cve-2022-0949

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0949
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b27995b1-3321-4997-8a25-80c9488b8405?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-15963
CVE-2022-0949
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-0949
CWE-89
EUVD-EUVD-2022-15963

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