https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/02\/wordpress-dos-exploit.html<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to this article \u201cUnpatched DoS Flaw Could Help Anyone Take Down WordPress Websites\u201d, it describes that a simple but 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. This vulnerability was discovered by Israeli who is a security researcher at Barak Waily blog website. He states that the vulnerability resides in the way \u201cload-scripts.PHP,\u201d which is a built-in script in WordPress CMS to processes user-defined requests. Load-scripts.php file is been designed for admin users to help a website improve performance. However, there is a vulnerability that user can force to load-scripts.php to get all possible JavaScript files from this user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unpatched DoS Flaw Could Help Anyone Take Down WordPress Websites https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/02\/wordpress-dos-exploit.html According to this article \u201cUnpatched DoS Flaw Could Help Anyone Take Down WordPress Websites\u201d, it describes that a simple but 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[714426],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-01-it-governance","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}