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
WordPress 4.0.1 is prone to a denial of service vulnerability that allows an attacker to send specially crafted requests. These requests resulting in CPU and memory exhaustion and in that way the site becomes unavailable.
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