# Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection

> Closed on WordPress.org on 2026-01-25 (reason: Guideline Violation): no more updates from there.

Source: https://todaywp.com (Today WP, free and read-only). 

## Facts

- Slug: stopbadbots
- To check an installed version: wp_security with plugins "stopbadbots:<version>".

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2025-08-27 MEDIUM: Insufficient Authorization to Unauthenticated Blocklist Bypass (up to 11.58). CVE-2025-9376, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8d6b0d86-3cb4-4723-b677-141c604f00cc?source=api-prod
- 2024-05-29 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization to Information Expsoure (up to 10.23). CVE-2024-4355, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c77d94ae-528d-4525-b16d-96529bee08c0?source=api-prod
- 2023-05-09 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 7.31). CVE-2023-32496, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/38e536a5-b538-498c-b19d-adda36f76164?source=api-prod
- 2022-11-18 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Plugin Installation (up to 7.23). CVE-2022-3883, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/759f5687-4ff1-4b8d-a5e7-3fb409fc2ba0?source=api-prod
- 2022-03-16 CRITICAL: SQL Injection (before 6.930). CVE-2022-0949, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b27995b1-3321-4997-8a25-80c9488b8405?source=api-prod
- 2022-03-08 CRITICAL: SQL Injection (before 6.88). CVE-2021-25070, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/64eb4bfe-09b4-43c7-9d7e-f14fc5edf3c1?source=api-prod
- 2021-11-15 CRITICAL: Unauthenticated SQL Injection (before 6.67). CVE-2021-24863, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e1634f86-21c0-4b9a-b521-c6b9986f91fc?source=api-prod
- 2021-08-25 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (before 6.67). WF-507fe5f4-3ac3-4e48-835e-66bad8bffc88, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/507fe5f4-3ac3-4e48-835e-66bad8bffc88?source=api-prod
- 2021-08-25 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (up to 6.61). WF-72d33132-aba7-4e97-90c6-359298b1c06e, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72d33132-aba7-4e97-90c6-359298b1c06e?source=api-prod
- 2021-08-06 HIGH: Authenticated SQL Injection (before 6.60). CVE-2021-24727, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3758f06-2b69-458f-a7c8-f604f0fbda31?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.