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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T12:19:30.523Z

Reserved: 2007-01-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-0540

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-01-29T17:28:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-0540

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