Security advisory

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  "id": "d07292e8a26c9d36c6d772af55ee7f98830eb64d9fc52cbd079addc46173d335",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6389",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-6389",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-6389",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-6389",
      "aliases": [
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "cfa1b0b98456220b4942a953a6792cd9cf00abc2"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.9.2"
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                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.9.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6389.json"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "425f42429c08bdf8f1cdcc01bdcecb8468f7226c"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.9.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.9.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6389.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:42.042181091Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389",
        "https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021",
        "https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html",
        "https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva",
        "https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html",
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-6389",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435268,
  "published_at": "2018-02-06T17:29:00.253+00:00"
}