CVE-2014-5266
mediumpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.252 · 98 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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exploits (1)
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- auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_xmlrpc_dosWordpress XMLRPC DoSfunctional · metasploit
affected products (98)
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also known as (3)
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references (19)
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- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830cnnvd
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/modules/openid/xrds.inc?id=1849830cnnvd
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404cnnvd
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/cnnvd
- https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004cnnvd
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830enisa_euvd
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/modules/openid/xrds.inc?id=1849830enisa_euvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999enisa_euvd
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