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CVE-2009-3622

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2009-10-23 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Wordpress Wordpress

Weakness Type

CWE-310

References