CVE-2007-0540

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.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

7.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 94th percentile

Published

2007-01-29

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29522

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2007-0539
• CVE-2007-0541
• CVE-2007-0535
• CVE-2007-0548
• CVE-2007-0528
• CVE-2007-0554