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1 vulnerability found for Blackhole for Bad Bots by specialk

CVE-2026-4329 (GCVE-0-2026-4329)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-26 03:37
Modified
2026-04-08 17:13
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
The Blackhole for Bad Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the User-Agent HTTP header in all versions up to and including 3.8. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. The plugin uses sanitize_text_field() when capturing bot data (which strips HTML tags but does not escape HTML entities like double quotes), then stores the data via update_option(). When an administrator views the Bad Bots log page, the stored data is output directly into HTML input value attributes (lines 75-83) without esc_attr() and into HTML span content without esc_html(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when an administrator views the Blackhole Bad Bots admin page.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
specialk Blackhole for Bad Bots Version: 0    3.8
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