7.8

CVE-2007-0539: wordpress Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.8v2.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2007-0539
Published 29-01-2007Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-0539 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 3.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89.1% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 2.1.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.55%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DTSA-33-1

Timeline

  1. 29-01-2007
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

3.55%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

89%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.55% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
3.55%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 2.1.0-1

2 vendors · 3 products

References

5 links