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CVE-2007-0540

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2007-01-29 Modified: 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 Platforms

Wordpress Wordpress

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References