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Wordpress: CVE-2018-6389: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

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Wordpress: CVE-2018-6389: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/06/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/15/2018
Modified
05/31/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-4_9_5

References

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