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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6389

Vulnerability in wordpress (DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6389)

Summary

Vulnerability in wordpress (DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6389). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

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A vulnerability tracked as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6389 has been found in wordpress.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "wordpress DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6389" on the vendor's site.

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6389 (wordpress)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in wordpress.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of wordpress.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'wordpress' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

  1. 1
    Identify exposure identify
    grep -r 'wordpress' . | grep -v node_modules

    リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で wordpress を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。

  2. 2
    Post-deployment verification verify
    Confirm patched version is live in production

    パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Debian:11 wordpress
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:12 wordpress
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:13 wordpress
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:14 wordpress
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

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