CVE-2007-0540

mediumpriority · track · 33OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.076 · 95 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS
grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
Public exploit
1 exploit · functional
Likely / severe?
7.65% (95th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
Is it mine?
2 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.0
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9
v2.04.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-400USLLM-inferredCWE-798USLLM-inferred
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exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

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affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

05

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

06

sources

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enisa_euvdnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2007-01-29modified 2026-06-16
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references (10)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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