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CVE-2007-0540

Published

16 years ago

Last Modified

4 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity: Medium
Base Score: 5/10
Exploit Score: 10/10
Access Vector: Network
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication Required: None
Impact Score: 2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact: None
Availability Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: None

Products Affected

CPE	Affected	Vulnerable	Excluding	Edit
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress::::::::	Yes	-	-

References

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