CVE-2022-0949: Stopbadbots Block And Stop Bad Bots

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Stopbadbots Block And Stop Bad Bots: before 6.930 (fixed in 6.930)

Published 2022-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.