### [CVE-2007-0540](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0540)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2191

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.