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…

published October 23, 2009

CVSS
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EPSS
6%
Percentile
93.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05827 · 93.1th percentile
Published
2009-10-23T18:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 OCT 18:00Z
    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…
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