WordPress Core < 2.7 - Denial of Service

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2008-6767
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published December 22, 2008
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Jesus Olmos Gonzalez
Description

wp-admin/upgrade.php in WordPress up to and including 2.6.1, allows remote attackers to upgrade the application, and possibly cause a denial of service (application outage), via a direct request if WordPress is not yet setup by creating an empty database, which will prevent future installations from succeeding.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.6.1
Patched Version
  • 2.7
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