Security Advisory

CVE-2011-4957

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-06-27 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-09-17 03:44:06

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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