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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2014-5266

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2014-5266

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities