WordPress plugin · stopbadbots
Is Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection safe?
Closed. Replace it.
wordpress.org closed it on Jan 25, 2026 (guideline violation), so it gets no more security fixes, and 6 flaws are on record. If your site runs it, move to a maintained alternative.
- Flaws on record
- 6
- High or critical
- 2
- Exploited
- none
Every recorded flaw
- Aug 28, 2025Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection: Unauthorized access of dataCVE-2025-9376 · affects up to 11.58 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.5
- May 30, 2024Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection: Unauthorized access of dataCVE-2024-4355 · affects up to 10.23 · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.3
- Aug 23, 2023Auth.CVE-2023-32496 · affects up to 7.31 · reported by PatchstackMedium 5.9
- Dec 12, 2022Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection: Does not have proper authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX actionCVE-2022-3883 · fixed in 7.24 · reported by WPScanMedium 6.5
- Apr 11, 2022Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection: Does not properly sanitise and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint AJACVE-2022-0949 · fixed in 6.930 · reported by WPScan7.7% oddsCritical 9.8
- Mar 28, 2022Block Bad Bots: Does not properly sanitise and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to record logsCVE-2021-25070 · fixed in 6.88 · reported by WPScan1.6% oddsCritical 9.8
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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