Automated Threats Pose Increasing Risk to the Travel Industry

As the travel industry rebounds post-pandemic, it is increasingly targeted by automated threats, with the sector experiencing nearly 21% of all bot attack requests last year. That's according to research from Imperva, a Thales company. In their 2024 Bad Bot Report, Imperva finds that bad bots...

CVE-2024-4355

The CVE-2024-4355 entry concerns the WordPress plugin Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection. The root cause is a missing capability check in the stopbadbots_get_ajax_data() function affecting all versions up to 10.24, enabling authenticated users with subs...

PT-2024-30599 · WordPress · Block Bad Bots/Stop Bad Bots Crawlers/Spiders/Anti Spam Protection

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 10.24 Description: The issue is related to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on...

Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection < 10.24 - Missing Authorization to Information Expsoure

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 a missing capability check on the stopbadbotsgetajaxdata function in all versions up to, and including, 10.23. This makes it...

Five Key Takeaways from the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report

Bad bots continue to affect consumers and organizations across all sectors. For over eleven years, Imperva has been dedicated to helping organizations manage and mitigate the threat of bad bots. We’ve published the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report as part of our commitment to helping organizations...

Latest Research Reveals Rise in API Attacks in 2023, Putting Businesses at Risk in 2024

The State of API Security in 2024 Report highlights how APIs and their increased usage are significantly changing the threat landscape. In 2023, the number of API-targeted attacks rose significantly. Attacks targeting the business logic of APIs constituted 27% of attacks in 2023, a growth of 10%...

Is Web Scraping Illegal? Depends on Who You Ask

Web scraping has existed for a long time, and depending on who you ask, it can be loved or hated. But where is the line drawn between extracting data for legitimate business purposes and malicious data extraction that hurts business? The bar is getting blurrier by the day, and the introduction of...

Five Takeaways from Black Friday & Cyber Monday Cyber Attacks

The online retail industry is one of the prime targets for cybercrime, as detailed in our annual analysis of the cybersecurity threats targeting eCommerce websites and applications. As the 2023 holiday shopping season continues, Imperva Threat Research is closely monitoring how cybercriminals are...

Measures Healthcare Providers Can Take to Mitigate Disruptions

Earlier this month, an internet outage affected public healthcare clusters in Singapore, including major hospitals and polyclinics, lasting more than seven hours from 9:20 am. Investigations identified that a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack was the cause of the online service outage. DD...

Why Bad Bots Are the Digital Demons of the Internet

In the dimly lit corners of the internet, where shadows flicker and eerie silences prevail, there lurks entities of malevolent intent. They are not the stuff of old wives tales or campfire ghost stories. We’re talking about bad bots, the digital bogeymen of the digital age. These nefarious beings...

CVE-2023-32496

Auth. admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Bill Minozzi Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin = 7.31 versions...

CVE-2023-32496

Auth. admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Bill Minozzi Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin = 7.31 versions...

CVE-2023-32496

CVE-2023-32496 corresponds to a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection (StopBadBots) for versions

PT-2023-23830 · WordPress · Bill Minozzi Block Bad Bots/Stop Bad Bots Crawlers/Spiders/Anti Spam Protection

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Bill Minozzi Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin versions prior to 7.32 Description: The issue is related to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability that affects the Bill Minozzi Block...

Introducing Integrated API Abuse Prevention to Combat Bad Bots

In recent years theres been a rise in "API Abuse" attacks, which includes detrimental automated behaviors such as malicious bots, account takeover ATO, credential stuffing, application layer L7 DDoS, data scraping, and more. For instance, in April-2021 malicious actors scraped the personal data o...

How Ticket Scalping Impacts Asia’s Live Entertainment Industry

Asia’s booming live entertainment industry has recently been plagued by a growing problem of ticket scalping. The term refers to the act of purchasing live event tickets in bulk by individuals, often through the use of automation aka bots, to later resell them at exorbitant prices. The issue isn’...

Preventing Bot Attacks and Online Fraud on APIs

The rapid proliferation of Application Programming Interfaces APIs is spearheading digital transformation, leading to explosive growth in adoption of APIs in recent years. In fact, it’s hard to think of any software that doesn’t use or is in itself, an API. By supporting swift development and...

CVE-2022-3883

The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 7.24 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call it and install and activate arbitrary plugins from wordpress....

CVE-2022-3883 StopBadBots < 7.24 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Plugin Installation

The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 7.24 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call it and install and activate arbitrary plugins from wordpress....

PT-2022-24588 · WordPress · Block Bad Bots/Stop Bad Bots Crawlers/Spiders/Anti Spam Protection

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin versions prior to 7.24 Description: The issue is related to a lack of proper authorization and CSRF protection in an AJAX action. This allows...