CVE-2011-4957
Published · Updated
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 3.2%
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.
Affected products
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http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16892http://secunia.com/advisories/44038http://secunia.com/advisories/49138http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/wordpress-3-1-1/http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2470http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/17http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/6