CVE-2009-3622

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-3622
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-10-23 18:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionAlgorithmic 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-310 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wordpress Wordpress All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
'[oss-security] CVE request: Wordpress Trackback DoS' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Security-Shell: Wordpress Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security-sh3ll.blogspot.com Third Party Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
www.osvdb.org/59077 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org Broken Link
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
'Re: [oss-security] CVE request: Wordpress Trackback DoS' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: [Wordpress] Resource Exhaustion (Denial of Service) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Bug 530056 – CVE-2009-3622 WordPress: Resource exhaustion (DoS) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
WordPress Trackback Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rooibo.wordpress.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
SecurityTracker.com Archives - WordPress 'wp-trackbacks.php' Multi-byte Encodincg Detection Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
403 Forbidden af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 codes.zerial.org Broken Link
WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wordpress.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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