{"id":"CVE-2011-4957","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:42:08.465684Z","published":"2012-06-27T21:55:02Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/44038"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/49138"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2470"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16892"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/wordpress-3-1-1/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/17"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/6"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}