Blackhole For Bad Bots
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The Blackhole for Bad Bots plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts through the User-Agent HTTP header. All versions up to and including 3.8 are affected. The vulnerability stems from insufficient output escaping when displaying bot data in the admin interface, enabling arbitrary JavaScript execution when administrators view the Bad Bots log page.
The Blackhole for Bad Bots WordPress plugin before 3.3.2 uses headers such as CF-CONNECTING-IP, CLIENT-IP etc to determine the IP address of requests hitting the blackhole URL, which allows them to. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
The Blackhole for Bad Bots plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts through the User-Agent HTTP header. All versions up to and including 3.8 are affected. The vulnerability stems from insufficient output escaping when displaying bot data in the admin interface, enabling arbitrary JavaScript execution when administrators view the Bad Bots log page.
The Blackhole for Bad Bots WordPress plugin before 3.3.2 uses headers such as CF-CONNECTING-IP, CLIENT-IP etc to determine the IP address of requests hitting the blackhole URL, which allows them to. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.