A vulnerability was found in Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection Plugin up to 7.23 on WordPress (Anti-Spam Software). It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component AJAX Action Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 7.24 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call it and install and activate arbitrary plugins from wordpress.org

The weakness was released 12/13/2022. The advisory is available at wpscan.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-3883 since 11/07/2022. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 7.24 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-260177, VDB-260360, VDB-260419 and VDB-261842.

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• Anti-Spam Software

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• Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection Plugin

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• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.2
• 7.3
• 7.4
• 7.5
• 7.6
• 7.7
• 7.8
• 7.9
• 7.10
• 7.11
• 7.12
• 7.13
• 7.14
• 7.15
• 7.16
• 7.17
• 7.18
• 7.19
• 7.20
• 7.21
• 7.22
• 7.23

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