ghsa-m4j7-w5vj-fwff
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Published
2022-05-02 03:46
Modified
2025-04-09 04:15
Details

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.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2009-3622"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2009-10-23T18:30:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-m4j7-w5vj-fwff",
  "modified": "2025-04-09T04:15:42Z",
  "published": "2022-05-02T03:46:54Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3622"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://marc.info/?l=oss-security\u0026m=125612393329041\u0026w=2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://marc.info/?l=oss-security\u0026m=125614592004825\u0026w=2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/37088"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.osvdb.org/59077"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}


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