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GHSA-MF9X-P929-VR83

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 05:28 – Updated: 2025-04-11 03:58

Details

The make_clickable function in wp-includes/formatting.php in WordPress before 3.1.1 does not properly check URLs before passing them to the PCRE library, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a comment with a crafted URL that triggers many recursive calls.

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  "modified": "2025-04-11T03:58:51Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T05:28:04Z",
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CVE-2011-4957 (GCVE-0-2011-4957)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-27 21:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 03:44

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

7 references

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http://secunia.com/advisories/44038	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/wordpress-3-1-1/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16892	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/49138	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/6	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2470	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN

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CVE-2011-4957 (GCVE-0-2011-4957)

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