From Online Fraud to DDoS and API Abuse: The State of Security Within eCommerce in 2022

What are the biggest cybersecurity threats affecting online retailers today? The State of Security Within eCommerce in 2022 Report from Imperva is now available and answers that question. For this report, Imperva’s cybersecurity experts analyzed 12 months of data, collected from our global networ...

Out with the WAF, in with the WAAP

Advanced attacks call for advanced protection Bad actors are constantly discovering new attack vectors to exploit applications. To meet the threat, organizations need enterprise-level security more now than ever. Traditionally, implementing a Web Application Firewall WAF would be enough to secure...

Imperva Threat Research Shows Cyber Attacks on the Rise in Australia

Every year, cyber attacks increase. Attackers get smarter, tools get better, and incentives to target sites grow. Over the last year, Imperva Threat Research detected a large increase in attacks targeting Australian sites, more than the global rise over the same timeframe. Australian attacks rose...

Is it Illegal to Scrape a Website for Content?

Web scraping is the process of using bots to extract information from a website. In recent years, the debate over web scraping is growing more complex as business intelligence and data privacy issues arise. The practice of web scraping has gone on for nearly as long as there have been websites. T...

Five Ways the Gaming & Gambling Industry is Targeted by Bad Bots

Let’s play a game of chance: What are the odds that your gaming website is being targeted by bad bots? Imperva research suggests they’re higher than you may think. Imperva’s 2022 Bad Bot Report reveals that 53.9 percent of traffic to gaming and gambling websites comes from bad bots. With the...

Natural Language Processing and “Mindful” AI Drive More Sophisticated Bad Bot Attacks

The evolution from human to bot attacks Over the last several years of my career in cyber security, I have been fortunate to work with professionals who researched and developed new cyber security detection and prevention solutions that block high-end cyber attacks. Initially, these attacks were...

Imperva is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management, Q2 2022

We are thrilled to announce that Imperva has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot Management, Q2 2022 report – a trusted source for technology buyers that helps security and risk professionals select the right vendor for their needs in a technology marketplace. The report offers a...

CVE-2022-0949

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 stopbadbotsgravafingerprint AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users,...

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

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 stopbadbotsgravafingerprint AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users,...

CVE-2022-1165 Blackhole for Bad Bots < 3.3.2 - Arbitrary IP Address Blocking via IP Spoofing

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 be spoofed. This could result in blocking arbitrary IP addresses, such as legitimate/good search...

CVE-2022-1165

The CVE-2022-1165 issue affects the WordPress plugin “Blackhole for Bad Bots” prior to version 3.3.2. The vulnerability arises because the plugin uses HTTP headers (e.g., CF-CONNECTING-IP, CLIENT-IP) to determine the requester’s IP, which can be spoofed, enabling arbitrary IP blocking or unblocki...

WordPress plugin Blackhole for Bad Bots 安全漏洞

WordPress is the Wordpress Foundation's set of blogging platform developed using the PHP language . The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.WordPress plugin is an open source application plugin for WordPress. A security vulnerability exists in the WordPress plugin...

WordPress Block Bad Bots plugin SQL injection vulnerability

WordPress is the Wordpress Foundation's set of blogging platform developed using the PHP language. WordPress plugin is a WordPress open source application plugin. WordPress Block Bad Bots plugin version 6.88 before the SQL injection vulnerability, the vulnerability stems from the use of SQL...

CVE-2021-25070

The Block Bad Bots WordPress plugin before 6.88 does not properly sanitise and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to record logs, leading to an SQL Injection issue...

CVE-2021-25070

The Block Bad Bots WordPress plugin before 6.88 does not properly sanitise and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to record logs, leading to an SQL Injection issue...

Sql injection

The Block Bad Bots WordPress plugin before 6.88 does not properly sanitise and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to record logs, leading to an SQL Injection issue...

CVE-2021-25070

The vulnerability CVE-2021-25070 affects the WordPress Block Bad Bots plugin (versions before 6.88). The issue arises because the plugin does not properly sanitise and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to record logs, enabling SQL injection. Impact per sources is high/criti...

WordPress plugin Block Bad Bots SQL注入漏洞

WordPress is the Wordpress Foundation's set of blogging platform developed using the PHP language. WordPress plugin is a WordPress open source application plugin. WordPress Block Bad Bots plugin version 6.88 before the SQL injection vulnerability, the vulnerability stems from the use of SQL...

WP Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.930 - Unauthenticated SQLi

The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbotsgravafingerprint AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection PoC curl -i 'https://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php' --data...

WordPress Stop Bad Bots plugin <= 6.92 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability

Unauthenticated SQL Injection SQLi vulnerability discovered by cydave in WordPress Stop Bad Bots plugin versions = 6.92. Solution Update the WordPress Stop Bad Bots plugin to the latest available version at least 6.930...