WordPress Denial of Service Vulnerability through Large List of Registered .js Files

WordPress Denial of Service Vulnerability through Large List of Registered .js Files

CVE-2018-6389 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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