module

WordPress Long Password DoS

Disclosed	Created
11/20/2014	05/30/2018

Disclosed

11/20/2014

Created

05/30/2018

Description

WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x
before 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(CPU consumption) via a long password that is improperly handled
during hashing.

Authors

Javier Nieto ArevaloAndres Rojas Guerrerorastating

References

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Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:

    msf > use auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_long_password_dos
    msf /(s) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf /(s) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf /(s) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf /(s) > run

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