7.8 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access 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
0.011 Low
EPSS
Percentile
84.7%
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.