CVE-2009-3622

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Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback.php in WordPress before 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a de

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.08278

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EPSS percentile: top 8% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
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Affected Products & Versions

wordpress<= 2.8.4

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Public Exploits & PoCs

pocrooibo.wordpress.com · agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpressrooibo.wordpress.com

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4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published to NVD23 Oct 2009 · 06:30 PM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phpsBroken Link

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/37088Third Party Advisory

http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.htmlThird Party Advisory

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http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/Vendor Advisory

http://www.osvdb.org/59077Broken Link

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986PatchVendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056Issue Tracking

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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