Detections
Analytics
CVE-2014-5265
high
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
https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999
http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830