CVE-2009-3622
MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 5.8%
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback.php in WordPress before 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and server hang) via a long title parameter in conjunction with a charset parameter composed of many comma-separated "UTF-8" substrings, related to the mb_convert_encoding function in PHP.
- CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - EPSS
- 5.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 93rd percentile
- Published
- 2009-10-23
- Updated
- 2024-08-07
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
Security advisories
- http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37088
- http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056