CVE-2014-5265

WordPress < 3.9.2 - Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999

Scores

EPSS 0.0702
EPSS Percentile 91.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (35)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
drupal/drupal 6.0 (10 CPE variants)
drupal/drupal 6.1
drupal/drupal 6.2
drupal/drupal 6.3
drupal/drupal 6.4
drupal/drupal 6.5
drupal/drupal 6.6
drupal/drupal 6.7
drupal/drupal 6.8
... and 25 more
Published Aug 18, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026