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CVE-2014-5266

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
18/08/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.9.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.2:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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