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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 CVE-2003-1564.


Security Impact Summary

CVE-2014-5265 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from wordpress, from drupal, from debian organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.


Published

2014-08-18T11:15:27.433

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-399

Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application wordpress wordpress ≤ 3.9.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.0 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.0.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.0.2 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.0.3 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.0.4 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.0.5 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.0.6 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.1.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.1.2 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.1.3 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.1.4 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.2 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.2 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.2.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.3 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.3.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.3.2 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.3.3 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.4.0 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.4.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.4.2 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.5.0 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.5.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.6 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.6.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.7 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.7.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.8 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.8.1 Yes
Application wordpress wordpress 3.9.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.1 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.2 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.3 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.4 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.5 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.6 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.7 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.8 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.9 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.10 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.11 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.12 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.13 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.14 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.15 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.16 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.17 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.18 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.19 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.20 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.21 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.22 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.23 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.24 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.25 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.26 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.27 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.28 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.29 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.30 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.31 Yes
Application drupal drupal 6.32 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.0 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.1 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.2 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.3 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.4 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.5 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.6 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.7 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.8 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.9 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.10 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.11 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.12 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.13 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.14 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.15 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.16 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.17 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.18 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.19 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.20 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.21 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.22 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.23 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.24 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.25 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.26 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.27 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.28 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.29 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.30 Yes
Application drupal drupal 7.x-dev Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 7.0 Yes

References

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For wordpress's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.