CVE-2009-3622

WordPress: Resource exhaustion (DoS)

Published Oct 23, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 5.8% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 6:31 AM
Reserved
Oct 9, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 23, 2009, 6:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:12 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Oct 20, 2009, 12:00 AM