PT-2014-6379

CVE-2014-5266

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Published

2014-08-06

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Updated

2015-11-25

Description by

CVSS 2.0
5.0
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library as used in WordPress versions prior to 3.9.2 Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library as used in Drupal versions prior to 6.33 Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library as used in Drupal versions prior to 7.31
Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to CPU consumption by sending a large XML document. This is achieved by exploiting the lack of limitation on the number of elements in an XML document.
Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 3.9.2, update to version 3.9.2 or later. For Drupal 6.x versions prior to 6.33, update to version 6.33 or later. For Drupal 7.x versions prior to 7.31, update to version 7.31 or later.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
DLA-56-1
DSA-2999-1
DSA-3001-1
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