CVE-2022-0949 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting the Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin versions prior to 6.930. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious SQL queries due to improper sanitization of the 'fingerprint' parameter within the 'stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint' AJAX action. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit modules, Nuclei templates exist for detection, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 6.930CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:stopbadbots:block_and_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.