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CVE-2014-5265

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, per

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.07017
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Affected Products & Versions

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wordpress<= 3.9.1
wordpressall versions
drupalall versions
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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD18 Aug 2014 · 11:15 AM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/PatchVendor Advisory
https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004PatchVendor Advisory
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