CVE-2018-6389

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    CVE-2018-6389

    Published: 6 Feb 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347, https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389, https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021, https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html, https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva, https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.9.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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