CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4957
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The make_clickable function in wp-includes/formatting.php in WordPress before 3.1.1 does not properly check URLs before passing them to the PCRE library, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a comment with a crafted URL that triggers many recursive calls.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 3.1)
• wordpress wordpress 0.71
• wordpress wordpress 1.0
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.4
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.5
• wordpress wordpress 1.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.3.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.3.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.5
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.0
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.4
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.6
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.7
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.8
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.9
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.10
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.11
• wordpress wordpress 2.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.5.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.6
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.7
• wordpress wordpress 2.7.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.8
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.4
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.5.1
… and 13 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16892 core.trac.wordpress.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44038 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49138 Vendor Advisory
- http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/wordpress-3-1-1/ wordpress.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2470 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/17 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/6 www.openwall.com
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16892 core.trac.wordpress.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44038 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49138 Vendor Advisory
- http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/wordpress-3-1-1/ wordpress.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2470 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/17 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/6 www.openwall.com