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CVE-2022-3883

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—
Severity6.5Medium · CVSS 3.1
Exploitation probability0.34 %higher than 27% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

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

CVSS

Base score
6.5
Version
3.1
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.34 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
27
Score date
10/22/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Stopbadbots Project — Stopbadbots

CWEs

References

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