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CVE-2014-5265

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…

Severity
Medium 5.0
Published
18 Aug 2014
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
17 Oct 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
WordPressWordPress core · cpe:a:wordpress:wordpress
  • Version 3.9.0
  • Version 3.8.1
  • Version 3.8
  • Version 3.7.1
All 32 release lines
  • Every version up to 3.9.1
  • Version 3.0
  • Version 3.0.1
  • Version 3.0.2
  • Version 3.0.3
  • Version 3.0.4
  • Version 3.0.5
  • Version 3.0.6
  • Version 3.1
  • Version 3.1.1
  • Version 3.1.2
  • Version 3.1.3
  • Version 3.1.4
  • Version 3.2-beta1
  • Version 3.2
  • Version 3.2.1
  • Version 3.3
  • Version 3.3.1
  • Version 3.3.2
  • Version 3.3.3
  • Version 3.4.0
  • Version 3.4.1
  • Version 3.4.2
  • Version 3.5.0
  • Version 3.5.1
  • Version 3.6
  • Version 3.6.1
  • Version 3.7
  • Version 3.7.1
  • Version 3.8
  • Version 3.8.1
  • Version 3.9.0

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5265
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5265