CVE-2007-0540

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-29 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.0

References

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
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

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