CVE-2018-6389

7.5 highEPSS 73%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-400
Published: 2018-02-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

wordpress:wordpress

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347
https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva
https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389

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