What is CVE-2019-8909?

CVE-2019-8909 is a high-severity vulnerability in Wtcms Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-02-18.

How severe is CVE-2019-8909?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Wtcms Project

CVE-2019-8909

An issue was discovered in WTCMS 1.0. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via crafted dimensions for the verification code image.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2019-02-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Wtcms Project — versions 1.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

github.com/taosir/wtcms/issues/6 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-8909?: CVE-2019-8909 is a high-severity vulnerability in Wtcms Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-02-18.
How severe is CVE-2019-8909?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.