CVE-2007-0540

published 2007-01-29

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…

Priority P4 23 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

EXPLOIT

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

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 2.1.0-1 (bookworm)	wordpress 2.1.0-1 (bookworm)
wordpress	wordpress	<= 2.0	—
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.1.0-1	2.1.0-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.1.0-1	2.1.0-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.1.0-1	2.1.0-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.1.0-1	2.1.0-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 LOW

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