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
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.
Author | Note |
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ari-tczew | Exploit: http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps |
jdstrand | fixed in 2.5.1-11+lenny3 |