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WordPress Long Password DoS

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Disclosed
Nov 20, 2014
Created
May 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 Arevalo
Andres Rojas Guerrero
rastating

References

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 auxiliary(wordpress_long_password_dos) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_long_password_dos) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_long_password_dos) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_long_password_dos) > run
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