CVE-2009-3622
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 23, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 9, 2009
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 20091019 [Wordpress] Resource Exhaustion (Denial of Service)mailing-list
- http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html
- wordpress-wptrackback-dos(53884)vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20091021 Re: CVE request: Wordpress Trackback DoSmailing-list
- http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps
- 37088third-party-advisory
- 59077vdb-entry
- http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/
- ADV-2009-2986vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056
- [oss-security] 20091021 CVE request: Wordpress Trackback DoSmailing-list
- 1023072vdb-entry
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/
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