CVE detail
CVE-2009-3622 — CVE-2009-3622
Published 2009-10-23 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor wordpress · Product wordpress · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0583
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
92.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References