CVE-2018-6389
HIGH 7.5EPSS 72.7%
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.
- CVSS v3.0
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - EPSS
- 72.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 99th percentile
- Nuclei
- high
- Published
- 2018-02-06
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
Proof-of-concept exploits (24)
- https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
- https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html
- Adelittle/Wordpressz_Dos_CVE_2018_63890★ · 2020-02-02
- BiswajeetRay7/Loadscript-payload2★ · 2022-11-05
- BlackRouter/cve-2018-63890★ · 2018-02-26
- ItinerisLtd/trellis-cve-2018-638913★ · 2018-08-30
- JavierOlmedo/wordpress-cve-2018-63892★ · 2018-03-07
- JulienGadanho/cve-2018-6389-php-patcher1★ · 2018-02-13
- Zazzzles/Wordpress-DOS4★ · 2018-11-01
- alessiogilardi/PoC---CVE-2018-63890★ · 2019-03-04
- armaanpathan12345/WP-DOS-Exploit-CVE-2018-63891★ · 2018-05-04
- bogdanovist2061/Project-7---WordPress-Pentesting0★ · 2018-04-14
- dsfau/wordpress-CVE-2018-63892★ · 2018-02-09
- fakedob/tvsz0★ · 2019-01-06
- ianxtianxt/CVE-2018-63893★ · 2019-12-22
- knqyf263/CVE-2018-638910★ · 2018-02-07
- m3ssap0/wordpress_cve-2018-63892★ · 2018-03-10
- mudhappy/Wordpress-Hack-CVE-2018-63890★ · 2018-04-20
- rastating/modsecurity-cve-2018-63890★ · 2018-02-07
- s0md3v/Shiva131★ · 2020-10-01
- safebuffer/CVE-2018-638982★ · 2018-02-06
- thechrono13/PoC---CVE-2018-63890★ · 2018-02-26
- vineetkia/Wordpress-DOS-Attack-CVE-2018-63891★ · 2019-11-11
- omidsec/CVE-2018-6389