CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0539

7.8 HIGH Published 2007-01-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-01-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The wp_remote_fopen function in WordPress before 2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a large file, which triggers a long download session without a timeout constraint.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.0)

References