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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• DSA-3001 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-2999 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2014-5265](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2014-5265.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2014-5265)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 11:41 UTC.