WP Block and Stop Bad Bots <= 6.92 - SQL Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE	CVE-2022-0949
CVSS	Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published	March 16, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	cydave

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

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	stopbadbots (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 6.930
Patched Version	6.930

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