WordPress component: Denial of service

WordPress component is affected by denial of service. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A successful request can exhaust or disrupt the affected operation and make site functionality unavailable.

CVE / CNA score Pending The CVE record has not published a CNA CVSS assessment.

NVD score 5.0 CVSS 2.0 · nvd@nist.gov

Component: WordPress component
Plugin slug: Not applicable
Affected: See vendor advisory
Safe version: See mitigation notes
Published: Jan 29, 2007
Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

No fixed release is identified. Update WordPress component when a confirmed fixed release becomes available; until then, disable and remove it when the site's risk warrants.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical 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.

NVD vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Primary and upstream sources

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