VDB
CVE-2018-6389
CVE-2018-6389
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
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.
EPSS 82.60% · 99.7th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
82.60%
99.7th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | wordpress | 0, *, 4.9.5+dfsg1-1 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | wordpress | *, 0, 5.7.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu1 |
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | wordpress | 5.2.2+dfsg1-1, 0, * |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | wordpress | 6.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu1, 0, * |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | wordpress | 0, 6.7.2+dfsg1-1.1ubuntu1 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | wordpress | 4.3.1+dfsg-1, 0, 4.4.1+dfsg-1 |
Timeline
- CVE Published
- Feb 5, 2018 PoC Published
- Jan 8, 2020 PoC Published
- Jan 9, 2020 PoC Published
- Jan 17, 2020 PoC Published
- Feb 18, 2020 PoC Published
- Feb 29, 2020 PoC Published
- Mar 19, 2020 PoC Published
- Apr 2, 2020 PoC Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- May 7, 2021 PoC Published
- Aug 18, 2021 PoC Published
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6389 third-party-advisory
- https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html third-party-advisory
- https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html third-party-advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6389 third-party-advisory