CVE-2014-5266
MEDIUMEPSS 98th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/modules/openid/xrds.inc?id=1849830
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/
- https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004
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