7.8 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.012 Low
EPSS
Percentile
85.4%
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.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
wordpress:wordpress | wordpress | le | 2.0 |