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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

25.2% · top 2.1% of all CVEs (4 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 (7)

• 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
• http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/modules/openid/xrds.inc?id=1849830 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2014-5266](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2014-5266.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2014-5266)

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