CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-5265
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-08-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library, as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31, permits entity declarations without considering recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 3.9.1)
• wordpress wordpress 3.0
• wordpress wordpress 3.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.0.2
• wordpress wordpress 3.0.3
• wordpress wordpress 3.0.4
• wordpress wordpress 3.0.5
• wordpress wordpress 3.0.6
• wordpress wordpress 3.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 3.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 3.1.4
• wordpress wordpress 3.2
• wordpress wordpress 3.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.3
• wordpress wordpress 3.3.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.3.2
• wordpress wordpress 3.3.3
• wordpress wordpress 3.4.0
• wordpress wordpress 3.4.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.4.2
• wordpress wordpress 3.5.0
• wordpress wordpress 3.5.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.6
• wordpress wordpress 3.6.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.7
• wordpress wordpress 3.7.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.8
• wordpress wordpress 3.8.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.9.0
• drupal drupal 6.0
• drupal drupal 6.1
• drupal drupal 6.2
• drupal drupal 6.3
• drupal drupal 6.4
• drupal drupal 6.5
• drupal drupal 6.6
• drupal drupal 6.7
• drupal drupal 6.8
• drupal drupal 6.9
• drupal drupal 6.10
• drupal drupal 6.11
• drupal drupal 6.12
• drupal drupal 6.13
• drupal drupal 6.14
• drupal drupal 6.15
• drupal drupal 6.16
• drupal drupal 6.17
• drupal drupal 6.18
• drupal drupal 6.19
• drupal drupal 6.20
• drupal drupal 6.21
• drupal drupal 6.22
• drupal drupal 6.23
• drupal drupal 6.24
• drupal drupal 6.25
• drupal drupal 6.26
• drupal drupal 6.27
• drupal drupal 6.28
… and 37 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830 cgit.drupalcode.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001 www.debian.org
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404 core.trac.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830 cgit.drupalcode.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001 www.debian.org
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404 core.trac.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004 Patch, Vendor Advisory