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WordPress Pingback Denial of Service Security Issue Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA24951  
Release Date: 2007-04-19
Last Update: 2007-04-20

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:WordPress 2.x

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
foobarwp12 has reported a security issue in WordPress, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The security issue is caused due to WordPress not verifying pingback URLs or limiting the maximum size of files to be downloaded during the pingback process. This can be exploited to cause high bandwidth usage by sending multiple pingbacks containing URLs to large files.

The security issue is confirmed in version 2.1.3. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that pingback URLs are properly verified and no large files can be downloaded.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in a WordPress bug by foobarwp12. Also reported by Blake Matheny.

Changelog:
2007-04-20: Updated "Provided and/or discovered by" section.

Original Advisory:
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4137



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