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.
Remediation
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MySQL Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability (CVE-2025-50086)
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