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Unpatched DoS Flaw Could Help Anyone Take Down WordPress Websites
2018-02-05 11:48

A simple yet serious application-level denial of service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress CMS platform that could allow anyone to take down most WordPress websites even with a single machine—without hitting with a massive amount of bandwidth, as required in network-level DDoS attacks to achieve the same. Since the company has denied patching the issue, the vulnerability (


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Wordpress 7 2 93 44 18 157