CVE-2018-6389
First published: Tue Feb 06 2018(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress WordPress | <=4.9.2 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347
- https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
- https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva
- https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389
- https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/
- agent/references
- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- agent/author
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/wordpress
- canonical/wordpress wordpress
- version/wordpress wordpress/4.9.2