CVE-2007-0540

First published: Mon Jan 29 2007(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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