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CVE-2007-0540

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CVE-2007-0540

Published: Jan 29, 2007

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

n/a

affected
n/a

References

30013
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
DSA-1564
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
20070124 Weaknesses in Pingback Design
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
2191
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SREASON

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