Resource Exhaustion Affecting wordpress package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
36.04% (98th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-363662
- published 6 Feb 2018
- disclosed 6 Feb 2018
Introduced: 6 Feb 2018
CVE-2018-6389 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:unstable wordpress.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wordpress package and not the wordpress package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6389
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/
- https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
- https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva
- https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389
- https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-6389
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