PT-2018-17524 · WordPress+1 · Wordpress+1

Published 2018-02-06 · Updated 2023-04-20 · CVE-2018-6389

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.9.3

Description The issue allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming resources. This can be achieved by constructing a series of requests to load a large number of registered .js files multiple times. There have been reports of this issue being exploited, including a denial of service attack on nordvpn.com.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 4.9.3, update to version 4.9.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the script-loader.php file to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6389

Affected Products

Debian

Wordpress

References · 34

• 🔥 https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/s0md3v/Shiva · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/safebuffer/CVE-2018-6389 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/ItinerisLtd/trellis-cve-2018-6389 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/knqyf263/CVE-2018-6389 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/Zazzzles/Wordpress-DOS · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/ianxtianxt/CVE-2018-6389 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/43968 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://baraktawily.blogspot.tw/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6389 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6389 · Security Note