CVE-2007-0540 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-1564-1	New wordpress packages fix several vulnerabilities
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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0776.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/30013
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2191
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1564
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457996/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458003/100/0/threaded

History

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Subscriptions

Wordpress Wordpress

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-01-29T17:00:00.000Z

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

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

Link: CVE-2007-0540

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-0540

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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