WP Maps < 4.9.7 - Subscriber+ Denial of Service
33Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 6.5epss 0.4%
from disclosure to weapon42 days
Published on NVDAug 7
1st PoC+42d
exploitation probability
0.4%top 67% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
The WP Maps WordPress plugin before 4.9.7 does not perform a capability check in one of its AJAX actions and does not restrict the operation it dispatches, allowing users with a Subscriber account to trigger uncontrolled recursion that exhausts server resources, resulting in a Denial of Service.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Unknown · WP Mapspublic PoCs found — 2
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