WPGraphQL <= 1.3.5 - Denial of Service

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2021-31157
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 27, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher DOLEV FARHI
Description

The WPGraphQL plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service via field duplication in versions up to, and including, 1.3.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to rapidly duplicate fields and queries resulting in OOM and MySQL connection errors.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-graphql (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.5
Patched Version
  • 1.3.6
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