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.

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:31:10.551Z

Reserved: 2009-10-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-3622

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-10-23T18:30:00.517

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-3622

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2009-10-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-3622 - Bugzilla

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