7.5

CVE-2018-6389

Exploit

WordPress Core < 5.0 - Denial of Service

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.
Mögliche Gegenmaßnahme
WordPress: Update to version 5.0, or a newer patched version
Weitere Schwachstelleninformationen
SystemWordPress Core
Produkt WordPress
Version [*, 5.0)
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
WordpressWordpress Version <= 4.9.2
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 87.93% 0.994
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.5 3.9 3.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 5 10 2.9
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.