CVE-2014-5265

Published Aug 18, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 3.1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-56-1 wordpress security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-5158 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 11:41 AM
Reserved
Aug 15, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 18, 2014, 11:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:11 AM