| Name | CVE-2018-6389 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wordpress (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 5.7.11+dfsg1-0+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 6.1.6+dfsg1-0+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 6.5.5+dfsg1-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| wordpress | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021
disputed by upstream as best fixed at the server level
patch in progress in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43308
Architectual limitation, marginal impact