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CVE-2018-6389

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 72.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

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.

Affected products

• WordPress: through 4.9.2

References

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

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