CVE-2009-3622

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductWordpress
PublishedOct 23, 2009
First seenOct 23, 2009

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
wordpress wordpressv ≤ 2.8.4—

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