CVE - CVE-2018-6389

CVE-ID
CVE-2018-6389	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:103060 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060 EXPLOIT-DB:43968 URL:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/ MISC:https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html MISC:https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva MISC:https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389 MISC:https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html MISC:https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021 SECTRACK:1040347 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20180129	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20180129)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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