CVE 5.3 MEDIUM

Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots <= 3.4.8 - Unauthenticated Protection Mechanism Bypass_CVE-2025-10745

5.3 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Description

The Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Blocking Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.8. This is due to a site-wide “secret key” being deterministically generated from a constant character set using md5() and base64_encode() and then stored in the `banhammer_secret_key` option. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the plugin’s logging and blocking by appending a GET parameter named `banhammer-process_{SECRET}` where `{SECRET}` is the predictable value, thereby causing Banhammer to abort its protections for that request.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-10745
Source Wordfence
Published Sep 26, 2025 at 03:25

Affected Product

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Product Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots
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Affected Versions specialk Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots *

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