WordPress Core < 3.9.2 - Denial of Service via XML

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2014-5265
CVSS Low (2.7)
Publicly Published August 6, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ivan Novikov
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.7
  • 3.7 - 3.7.3
  • 3.8 - 3.8.3
  • 3.9 - 3.9.1
Patched Version
  • 3.7.4
  • 3.8.4
  • 3.9.2
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