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WordPress allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files, and possibly read portions of certain files, via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a local pathname, which triggers different fault codes for existing and non-existing files, and in certain configurations causes a brief file excerpt to be published as a blog comment

Published Jan 29, 2007

Description

WordPress allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files, and possibly read portions of certain files, via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a local pathname, which triggers different fault codes for existing and non-existing files, and in certain configurations causes a brief file excerpt to be published as a blog comment.

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Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 29, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jan 29, 2007
Link CVE-2007-0541
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2007-0541
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2007-0541