CVE-2025-9376

MEDIUM

Block Bad Bots <= 11.58 - Unauthenticated Incorrect Authorization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to an insufficient capability check on the 'stopbadbots_check_wordpress_logged_in_cookie' function in all versions up to, and including, 11.58. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass blocklists, rate limits, and other plugin functionality.

References (4)

Core 4

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 24.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-863
Status published
Products (1)
sminozzi/Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection < 11.58
Published Aug 28, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026