fkie_cve-2009-3622
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2009-10-23 18:30
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phpsBroken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/37088Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://securitytracker.com/id?1023072Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.osvdb.org/59077Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phpsBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/37088Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/59077Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wordpress wordpress *



{
  "configurations": [
    {
      "nodes": [
        {
          "cpeMatch": [
            {
              "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "matchCriteriaId": "62D2F1D6-CDAE-4870-8C54-319811E9A93C",
              "versionEndIncluding": "2.8.4",
              "vulnerable": true
            }
          ],
          "negate": false,
          "operator": "OR"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "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."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "Vulnerabilidad de complejidad algor\u00edtmica en wp-trackback.php en WordPress anteriores a v2.8.5 permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegaci\u00f3n de servicio (Consumo de CPU y cuelgue del servidor) a trav\u00e9s de un valor largo en el par\u00e1metro \"title\" en conjunci\u00f3n con un par\u00e1metro \"charset\" compuesto por muchas subcadenas \"UTF-8\" separadas por coma, est\u00e1 relacionado con la funci\u00f3n mb_convert_encoding en PHP."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2009-3622",
  "lastModified": "2025-04-09T00:30:58.490",
  "metrics": {
    "cvssMetricV2": [
      {
        "acInsufInfo": false,
        "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
        "cvssData": {
          "accessComplexity": "MEDIUM",
          "accessVector": "NETWORK",
          "authentication": "NONE",
          "availabilityImpact": "PARTIAL",
          "baseScore": 4.3,
          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
          "version": "2.0"
        },
        "exploitabilityScore": 8.6,
        "impactScore": 2.9,
        "obtainAllPrivilege": false,
        "obtainOtherPrivilege": false,
        "obtainUserPrivilege": false,
        "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
        "type": "Primary",
        "userInteractionRequired": false
      }
    ]
  },
  "published": "2009-10-23T18:30:00.517",
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    },
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    }
  ]
}


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