vulnerability
Wordpress: CVE-2018-6389: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Feb 6, 2018 | Feb 15, 2018 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 6, 2018
Added
Feb 15, 2018
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
wordpress-upgrade-4_9_5
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