CVE-2018-6389
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.36 Low
EPSS
Percentile
97.1%
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.
| CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress:wordpress | wordpress | le | 4.9.2 |
References
www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060
www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347
baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva
github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389
thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html
wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/
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7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.36 Low
EPSS
Percentile
97.1%