Description

WordPress is prone to a Denial of Service vulnerability which can be exploited by malicious people to cause the affected website to consume memory and CPU resources, thus denying service to legitimate users. WordPress versions prior to 3.7.4, 3.8.4 and 3.9.2 are vulnerable.

Remediation

Update to WordPress version 3.7.4, 3.8.4, 3.9.2 or latest

References

http://www.breaksec.com/?p=6362

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.7.4

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.8.4

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.9.2

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Severity

High

Classification

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Denial Of Service CWE-399 CVE-2014-5265