CVE-2007-0540

high

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.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2007-0538

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458003/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457996/100/0/threaded

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1564

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2191

http://secunia.com/advisories/30013

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-01-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.06558