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CVE-2018-6389
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-02-06T17:29:00.253 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:01:46.950

Summary

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 — wordpress

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References

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