CVE-2009-3622

WordPress < 2.8.4 - Denial of Service via wp-trackback.php Title Parameter

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (13)

Core 13
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/37088
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/59077
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/
Patch, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072

Scores

EPSS 0.0828
EPSS Percentile 92.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-310
Status published
Products (1)
wordpress/wordpress < 2.8.4
Published Oct 23, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026