CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6389
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
In WordPress through 4.9.2, unauthenticated attackers can cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by using the large list of registered .js files (from wp-includes/script-loader.php) to construct a series of requests to load every file many times.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.9.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389 Third Party Advisory
- https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389 Third Party Advisory
- https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry