CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0540

5.0 MEDIUM 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])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

WordPress 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 file with a binary content type, which is downloaded even though it cannot contain usable pingback data.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.0)

References