CVE-2007-0540

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductWordpress
PublishedJan 29, 2007
First seenJan 29, 2007

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
wordpress wordpressv ≤ 2.0—

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