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CVE-2018-6389

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.

Published

2018-02-06T17:29:00.253

Last Modified

2024-11-21T04:10:36.930

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-400

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wordpress	wordpress	≤ 4.9.2	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)