{
    "id": "CVE-2018-6389",
    "published": "2018-02-06 17:29:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 02:01:46",
    "cvss_score": "7.5",
    "cvss_severity": "HIGH",
    "cvss_version": "3.0",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-400",
    "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.72671",
    "epss_percentile": "0.99430",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-27 18:17:21",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "wordpress",
            "product": "wordpress"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "43968",
            "title": "WordPress Core - 'load-scripts.php' Denial of Service",
            "date": "2018-02-05",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060",
        "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347",
        "https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html",
        "https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva",
        "https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389",
        "https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html",
        "https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021",
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103060",
        "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040347",
        "https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html",
        "https://github.com/UltimateHackers/Shiva",
        "https://github.com/WazeHell/CVE-2018-6389",
        "https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html",
        "https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021",
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43968/"
    ]
}