CVE-2011-4957

N/A

Description

The make_clickable function in wp-includes/formatting.php in WordPress before 3.1.1 does not properly check URLs before passing them to the PCRE library, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a comment with a crafted URL that triggers many recursive calls.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published6/27/2012

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

wordpress:wordpress

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

References

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16892(secalert@redhat.com)

http://secunia.com/advisories/44038(secalert@redhat.com)

http://secunia.com/advisories/49138(secalert@redhat.com)

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/wordpress-3-1-1/(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2470(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/17(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/6(secalert@redhat.com)

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16892(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/44038(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/49138(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/wordpress-3-1-1/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2470(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/17(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/6(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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