CVE-2025-9376

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.

CVSS 3.1

6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

EPSS

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 29% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-863

Published

2025-08-28

Modified

2026-10-18

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stopbadbots/trunk/stopbadbots.php#L1958
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3350927/
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3351023/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8d6b0d86-3cb4-4723-b677-141c604f00cc?source=cve

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