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.
Published: 2007-01-29
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 7.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1564-1 New wordpress packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-0538 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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

Reserved: 2007-01-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-0540

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Status : Deferred

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

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

Link: CVE-2007-0540

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