CVE-2018-6389
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)87%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347Advisory
- https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021Advisory
- https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.htmlAdvisory
- https://github.com/UltimateHackers/ShivaAdvisory
- https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.htmlAdvisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/Advisory