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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060 ↗
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021 ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/ ↗
- https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347 ↗
- https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html ↗
- https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389 ↗
- https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva ↗