In WordPress through 4.9.2, unauthenticated attackers can cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by using the large list of…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

72.7% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-400 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 103060 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 43968 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 1040347 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2018-6389](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2018-6389.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-6389)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 06:01 UTC.