CVE-2007-0540

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

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3