WordPress Core 4.7.0-6.3.1 - Denial of Service via Cache Poisoning

Improper Preservation of Consistency Between Independent Representations of Shared State
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published October 12, 2023
Last Updated February 6, 2024
Researcher s5s, raouf_maklouf
Description

WordPress Core is vulnerable to Denial of Service via Cache Poisoning in versions between 4.7.0 and 6.3.1. In cases where the X-HTTP-Method-Override header was sent in a request to a REST endpoint and the endpoint returned a 4xx error, the error could be cached, resulting in denial of service.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 4.7 - 4.7.26
  • 4.8 - 4.8.22
  • 4.9 - 4.9.23
  • 5.0 - 5.0.19
  • 5.1 - 5.1.16
  • 5.2 - 5.2.18
  • 5.3 - 5.3.15
  • 5.4 - 5.4.13
  • 5.5 - 5.5.12
  • 5.6 - 5.6.11
  • 5.7 - 5.7.9
  • 5.8 - 5.8.7
  • 5.9 - 5.9.7
  • 6.0 - 6.0.5
  • 6.1 - 6.1.3
  • 6.2 - 6.2.2
  • 6.3 - 6.3.1
Patched Version
  • 4.7.27
  • 4.8.23
  • 4.9.24
  • 5.0.20
  • 5.1.17
  • 5.2.19
  • 5.3.16
  • 5.4.14
  • 5.5.13
  • 5.6.12
  • 5.7.10
  • 5.8.8
  • 5.9.8
  • 6.0.6
  • 6.1.4
  • 6.2.3
  • 6.3.2
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