CVE-2025-9376
BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-08-28
Last updated on: 2025-08-29
Assigner: Wordfence
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| wordfence | stopbadbots | 11.59 |
| wordfence | stopbadbots | 11.58 |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-863 | The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. |
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AI Powered Q&A
Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability exists in the Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin for WordPress, where an insufficient capability check in the 'stopbadbots_check_wordpress_logged_in_cookie' function allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass blocklists, rate limits, and other plugin protections.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bypass security measures such as blocklists and rate limits, potentially leading to unauthorized access to data and increased spam or malicious bot activity on the affected WordPress site.