cve/2009/CVE-2009-3622.md

CVE-2009-3622

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.

POC

Reference

• http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/
• http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056

Github

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