Rapid7

vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-6389: wordpress -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 6, 2018
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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