CVE-ID

CVE-2007-0540

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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.
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20070129 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20070129)
Votes (Legacy)
Comments (Legacy)
Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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