Vulnerability CVE-2014-5265
Published: 2014-08-18

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
WordPress 3.9 and Drupal 7.x Denial Of Service Vulnerability *video
breaksec
11.08.2014

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 
Drupal -> Drupal 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 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
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