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CVE-2007-05401 exploit

WordPress allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback service calls with a source U…

Published 19 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.0
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
7.6%
percentile 95%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

7.65% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-29522 WordPress Core 1.x/2.0.x - Pingback SourceURI Denial of Service / Information Disclosure · webapps · 2007-01-24

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.05.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Technology feeds
WordPress (RSS, critical only)

References

  • secunia.com /advisories/30013 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/458003/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • debian.org /security/2008/dsa-1564 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/457996/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • securityreason.com /securityalert/2191 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SREASON, x_transferred

Sources

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