CVE-2025-10745

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.3
Exploit probability—
ProductBanhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots
PublishedSep 26, 2025
First seenSep 26, 2025
Weakness typeCWE-330CWE-330

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
specialk Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Botsv ≤ 3.4.8—

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