CVE-2014-5266
WordPress < 3.9.2 - Denial of Service via Large XML Document in IXR Library
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2014-5266.
PoCs published by Nir Goldshlager, Christian Mehlmauer, including Metasploit module auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_xmlrpc_dos.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This Metasploit module exploits a denial-of-service vulnerability in WordPress XMLRPC parsing by sending maliciously crafted XML payloads that consume excessive memory. It fingerprints the target's memory limits and sends multiple requests to trigger a crash.
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.
Exploits (1)
This Metasploit module exploits a denial-of-service vulnerability in WordPress XMLRPC parsing by sending maliciously crafted XML payloads that consume excessive memory. It fingerprints the target's memory limits and sends multiple requests to trigger a crash.