CVE-2009-3622
EPSS 8.3%Published: 10/23/2009Modified: 5/27/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/wordpressfrom 0, < 2.8.5-1