Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 28, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-9376

Description

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.

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Affected products

Stop Bad Bots/Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protectionllm-create
Range: <=11.58
WordPress/Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protectionwp-canonicalize

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stopbadbots/trunk/stopbadbots.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3350927/nvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3351023/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8d6b0d86-3cb4-4723-b677-141c604f00ccnvd

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