CVE-2018-6389

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6389
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6389.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6389
Downstream
Published
2018-02-06T17:29:00.253Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:43:09.662773Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
cfa1b0b98456220b4942a953a6792cd9cf00abc2
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.9.2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6389.json"