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CVE-2018-6389

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Date: February 6, 2018

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.

Language: PHP

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Related Resources (12)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6389
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347
https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021
https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6389
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-6389
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/
https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html
https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-6389

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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