gsd-2009-3622
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:19
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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Aliases
CVE-2009-3622


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            "accessVector": "NETWORK",
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            "baseScore": 4.3,
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      "lastModifiedDate": "2017-11-21T18:11Z",
      "publishedDate": "2009-10-23T18:30Z"
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}


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