Medium severity · published Sep 26, 2025
CVE-2025-10745
Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots <= 3.4.8 - Unauthenticated Protection Mechanism Bypass
5.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 30% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BM
Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots · specialk
through 3.4.8 · source: vendor
Affected product
BM
Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block Bad Users and Bots
specialk
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10745
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10745
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/banhammer/trunk/inc/banhammer-core.php#L101
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/banhammer/trunk/inc/banhammer-functions.php#L336
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3365087%40banhammer&new=3365087%40banhammer&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3365979%40banhammer&new=3365979%40banhammer&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/97c46a13-6981-426f-b24a-c9820657042f?source=cve
