WordPress Core < 3.9.2 - Denial of Service via XML #2

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE	CVE-2014-5266
CVSS	Medium (6.5)
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, does not limit the number of elements in an XML document, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5265.

References

www.wordfence.com

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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