CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-2173
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-06-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
wp-includes/class-phpass.php in WordPress 3.5.1, when a password-protected post exists, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted value of a certain wp-postpass cookie.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress 3.5.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-06/0052.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2 codex.wordpress.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/12/2 openwall.com
- http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/ wordpress.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718 www.debian.org
- https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan/issues/219 github.com
- https://vndh.net/note:wordpress-351-denial-service Exploit
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-06/0052.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2 codex.wordpress.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/12/2 openwall.com
- http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/ wordpress.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718 www.debian.org
- https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan/issues/219 github.com
- https://vndh.net/note:wordpress-351-denial-service Exploit