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Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection, CVE-2025-9376

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-9376

Published on
Aug 28, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 11.59.
Status
vulnerable