CVE-2018-6389

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-6389
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-06 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-03-01 19:07:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wordpress Wordpress All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
WordPress <= 4.9.4 - Application Denial of Service (DoS) (unpatched) MISC wpvulndb.com Third Party Advisory
WordPress 'load-scripts.php' Lets Remote Users Consume Excessive I/O Resources and Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Unpatched DoS Flaw Could Help Anyone Take Down WordPress Websites MISC thehackernews.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
WordPress Core - 'load-scripts.php' Denial of Service EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
WordPress CVE-2018-6389 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
GitHub - s0md3v/Shiva: Improved DOS exploit for wordpress websites (CVE-2018-6389) MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Information Security: How to DoS 29% of the World Wide Websites - CVE-2018-6389 MISC baraktawily.blogspot.fr Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
GitHub - WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389: CVE-2018-6389 Exploit In WordPress DoS MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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