CVE-2009-3622
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.034 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.4%
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 βUTF-8β substrings, related to the mb_convert_encoding function in PHP.
Affected configurations
| CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress:wordpress | wordpress | le | 2.8.4 |
References
codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps
marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2
marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2
rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263
secunia.com/advisories/37088
security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html
securitytracker.com/id?1023072
wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/
www.osvdb.org/59077
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884
Related
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.034 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.4%