CVE-2022-3883: Stopbadbots Project Stopbadbots

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% 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 7.24 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call it and install and activate arbitrary plugins from wordpress.org

Affected products

• Stopbadbots Project Stopbadbots: before 7.24 (fixed in 7.24)

Published 2022-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.