4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.034 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.4%
WordPress is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
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CPE = "cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900968");
script_version("2023-03-01T10:20:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-03-01 10:20:04 +0000 (Wed, 01 Mar 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-10-29 07:53:15 +0100 (Thu, 29 Oct 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-3622");
script_name("WordPress wp-trackback.php Denial of Service Vulnerability");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/37088/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9431");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53884");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_wordpress_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wordpress/detected");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attacker to cause a Denial of Service
due to high CPU consumption.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"WordPress version prior to 2.8.5 on all platforms.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An error occurs in wp-trackbacks.php due to improper validation of user
supplied data passed into 'mb_convert_encoding()' function. This can be
exploited by sending multiple-source character encodings into the function.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to WordPress version 2.8.5 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"WordPress is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!wpPort = get_app_port(cpe:CPE))
exit(0);
if(!ver = get_app_version(cpe:CPE, port:wpPort))
exit(0);
if(version_is_less(version:ver, test_version:"2.8.5")){
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:ver, fixed_version:"2.8.5");
security_message(port:wpPort, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);