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Denial of Service vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins and themes

A denial-of-service flaw lets a small number of requests consume a disproportionate amount of server resource. No data is stolen; the site simply stops answering. Rate limiting and bot classification are the practical containment, because the traffic itself is the attack.

What an attacker can do: exhaust the server's resources and take the site offline CWE-400

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