CVE-2009-3622

WordPress Core <= 2.8.4 - Denial of Service

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Vulnerabilidad de complejidad algorítmica en wp-trackback.php en WordPress anteriores a v2.8.5 permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (Consumo de CPU y cuelgue del servidor) a través de un valor largo en el parámetro "title" en conjunción con un parámetro "charset" compuesto por muchas subcadenas "UTF-8" separadas por coma, está relacionado con la función mb_convert_encoding en PHP.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2009-10-09 CVE Reserved
2009-10-20 CVE Published
2023-03-07 EPSS Updated
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2024-08-07 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-310: Cryptographic Issues
CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CAPEC

References (13)

URL	Tag	Source
http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps	Broken Link
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2	Mailing List
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2	Mailing List
http://secunia.com/advisories/37088	Third Party Advisory
http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html	Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072	Third Party Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/59077	Broken Link
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056	Issue Tracking
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC
http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress	2024-08-07
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263	2024-08-07

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986	2017-11-21

URL	Date	SRC
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release	2017-11-21

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Wordpress Search vendor "Wordpress"		Wordpress Search vendor "Wordpress" for product "Wordpress"				<= 2.8.4 Search vendor "Wordpress" for product "Wordpress" and version " <= 2.8.4"		-		Affected