WordPress Core < 2.1 - Denial of Service

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2007-0539
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 22, 2007
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Blake Matheny
Description

The wp_remote_fopen function in WordPress before 2.1 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 large file, which triggers a long download session without a timeout constraint.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1
Patched Version
  • 2.1
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