CVE-2018-6389

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-6389
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-02-06T17:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-03-01T19:07:44
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-400 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 4.9.2
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021 Third Party Advisory
https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/ Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva Exploit Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6389
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6389
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:57:17 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 01:48:15 2018-02-06T17:29Z 2018-02-06T17:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 01:48:15 2019-03-01T19:07:44 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 01:48:15 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated