CVE-2009-3622 (GCVE-0-2009-3622)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-10-23 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:31
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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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2009-10-19 00:00
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