Security Advisory

CVE-2007-0540

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-01-29 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 12:19:30
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.