CVE-2011-4957

EPSS 2.8%
Published: 6/27/2012Modified: 5/27/2026

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.

Affected packages (1)

References (1)