Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection <= 10.23 - Missing Authorization to Information Expsoure

2024-05-29 19:55

Krzysztof Zając

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 10.24

Affected PluginBlock Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection

Affected Version<= 10.23

CVSS4.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-4355

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Vulnerability Overview

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 a missing capability check on the stopbadbots_get_ajax_data() function in all versions up to, and including, 10.23. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to expose visitor data.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 10.24, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4355 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c77d94ae-528d-4525-b16d-96529bee08c0

CVSS Vector

4.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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