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ubuntu-cve-2013-2173

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2013-06-21 13:57

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

wp-includes/class-phpass.php in WordPress 3.5.1, when a password-protected post exists, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted value of a certain wp-postpass cookie.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-2173	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/12	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2173	REPORT

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CVE-2013-2173 (GCVE-0-2013-2173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-06-21 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:27

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://vndh.net/note:wordpress-351-denial-service	x_refsource_MISC
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/12/2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan/issues/219	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2013-06-11 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2013-2173 (GCVE-0-2013-2173)

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