Vulnerability CVE-2007-0540


Published: 2007-01-29   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities in Wordpress
Blake Matheny
30.01.2007

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 

 References:
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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