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WordPress <= 4.9.4 - Application Denial of Service (DoS) (unpatched)

Description

An application Denial of Service (DoS) was found to affect WordPress versions 4.9.4 and below. We are not aware of a patch for this issue.

Affects WordPress

3.8.1
No known fix
3.8
No known fix
3.7.1
No known fix
3.6
No known fix
3.5.2
No known fix
3.5.1
No known fix
3.5
No known fix
3.4.2
No known fix
3.4.1
No known fix
3.4
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2018-6389
URL
https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
URL
https://github.com/quitten/doser.py
URL
https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html

Classification

Type

DOS

CWE
CWE-400

Miscellaneous

Submitter

ethicalhack3r

Submitter twitter
ethicalhack3r
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
5e0c1ddd-fdd0-421b-bdbe-3eee6b75c919

Timeline

Publicly Published

2018-02-05 (about 5 years ago)

Added

2018-02-05 (about 5 years ago)

Last Updated

2021-02-22 (about 1 years ago)

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