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01 Record

CVE-2018-14940

PHPCMS 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via large font_size, height, and width parameters in an api.php?op=checkcode request.

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

02 Description

PHPCMS 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via large font_size, height, and width parameters in an api.php?op=checkcode request.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
1.30% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 70.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2018-08-05 18:00Z8 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-05 09:46Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2018-08-05
Assigning CNA
mitre
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
  • CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
Data version
5.1
Document digest
ef689c4001abe3cd1f0206433e190963a50b394ac1c40832ce406c2bcc2658d4

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
phpcmsphpcmsNot specified—

06 References