CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-5265

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2014-08-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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