Vulnerability in Wordpress

CVE-2009-3622

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.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

EPSS: 0.058 (92.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2009-3622?
CVE-2009-3622 is a vulnerability in Wordpress, classified under Cryptographic Issues. Published 2009-10-23.
Is CVE-2009-3622 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.