WordPress <= 2.9 is vulnerable to Denial of Service Attack

Patch priority: low
Resolve by 30 January, 2010 Low priority
7.5
High severity CVSS 3.1 score

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emgent discovered and reported this Denial of Service Attack vulnerability in WordPress. A denial of service attack occurs when a malicious actor can cause the endpoint, or website, to crash or refuse to serve requests to one or more users by causing it to hang, crash or make unusable. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 3.0.

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