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WordPress Long Password DoS

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WordPress Long Password DoS

Disclosed
11/20/2014
Created
05/30/2018

Description

WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is improperly handled during hashing.

Author(s)

  • Javier Nieto Arevalo
  • Andres Rojas Guerrero
  • rastating

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_long_password_dos
msf auxiliary(wordpress_long_password_dos) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(wordpress_long_password_dos) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(wordpress_long_password_dos) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(wordpress_long_password_dos) > run

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