CVE-2021-24863 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting the StopBadBots WordPress plugin before version 6.67, specifically the "WP Block and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection Plugin" by billminozzi. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious SQL queries by manipulating the User Agent string, leading to a CVSS score of 9.8. The vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 6.67CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:billminozzi:stop_bad_bots:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.