CVE-2009-3622

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
Link Resource
http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps Broken Link
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/ Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37088 Third Party Advisory
http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/ Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/59077 Broken Link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986 Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056 Issue Tracking
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps Broken Link
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/ Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37088 Third Party Advisory
http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/ Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/59077 Broken Link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986 Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056 Issue Tracking
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2009-10-23 18:30

Updated : 2025-04-09 00:30


NVD link : CVE-2009-3622

Mitre link : CVE-2009-3622

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2009-3622


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Products Affected

wordpress

  • wordpress
CWE
CWE-310

Cryptographic Issues