Simple Ads Manager < 2.9.4.116 - Denial of Service

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE Not available
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published July 2, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Michael Kapfer
Description

The Simple Ads Manager Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service in versions before 2.9.4.116. This is due to an input validation flaw that allows an attacker to perform simple file system operations which can result in a denial of service. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to affected website to consume memory and CPU resources, thus denying service to legitimate users.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-ads-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.9.4.116
Patched Version
  • 2.9.4.116
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