CVE-2018-6389

CVE Database · CVE-2018-6389

CVE-2018-6389

· N/AModified

CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

73.10%

Published

Feb 6, 2018

Modified

Nov 21, 2024

Public PoC / Exploit (2)

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Exploit-DBWordPress Core - 'load-scripts.php' Denial of Service TrickestTrickest PoC index

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

Affected Products (1)

wordpress · wordpressvulnerable

References (16)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html

ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva

ExploitThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389

Third Party Advisory

https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html

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