CVEs-PoC/2009/CVE-2009-3622.md

### [CVE-2009-3622](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3622)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/
- http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.