CVE-2011-4957

The make_clickable function in wp-includes/formatting.php in WordPress before 3.1.1 does not properly check URLs before passing them to the PCRE library, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a comment with a crafted URL that triggers many recursive calls.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

3.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 87th percentile

Nuclei

high

Published

2012-06-27

Updated

2024-09-17

Nuclei templates (1)

• topscoder/nuclei-wordfence-cve/blob/main/nuclei-templates/2011/CVE-2011-4957-wordpress-ce…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2011-4956
• CVE-2011-4958
• CVE-2011-4938
• CVE-2011-4969
• CVE-2011-4929
• CVE-2011-4971