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WordPress core

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, which is downloaded even though it cannot contain usable pingback data.

Severity
Medium 5.0
Published
29 Jan 2007
Last changed
16 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
17 Oct 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
WordPressWordPress core · cpe:a:wordpress:wordpress
  • Every version up to 2.0

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0540
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0540