CVE-2007-0540
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,
02 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,
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 7.64% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-01-29 17:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 12:19Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-01-29
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5cb91fb7525b3f3303581589b61bd43ec02a6415e8d9931cb9b74b7a2525f21c
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com30013http://secunia.com/advisories/30013
- www.securityfocus.com20070124 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities in Wordpresshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458003/100/0/threaded
- www.debian.orgDSA-1564http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1564
- www.securityfocus.com20070124 Weaknesses in Pingback Designhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457996/100/0/threaded
- securityreason.com2191http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2191
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- wordpress Fixed in 2.1.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- wordpress Fixed in 2.1.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- wordpress Fixed in 2.1.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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