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CVE-2007-0541

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2007-01-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

WordPress allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files, and possibly read portions of certain files, via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a local pathname, which triggers different fault codes for existing and non-existing files, and in certain configurations causes a brief file excerpt to be published as a blog comment.

Affected Platforms

Wordpress Wordpress

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References