5
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-0540

Published: 29/01/2007 Updated: 16/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

WordPress allows remote malicious users 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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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #437085 CVE-2007-1599: wp-loginphp allows remote attackers to redirect authenticated users to other websites Package: wordpress; Maintainer for wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Source for wordpress is src:wordpress (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Steffen Joeris <steffenjoeris@sko ...

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/22220/info WordPress is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability and an information-disclosure vulnerability Attackers can exploit these issues to consume memory and bandwidth resources, denying service to legitimate users, or to gain information that may aid in further attacks Versions prior to WordP ...