{"id":"CVE-2014-5266","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2014-5266","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:16.041Z","title":"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)…","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.","published":"2014-08-18T11:15:27.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:11:18.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-399"],"affected":["wordpress/wordpress","drupal/drupal","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.25192,"percentile":0.9792,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 25.2%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/modules/openid/xrds.inc?id=1849830","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/modules/openid/xrds.inc?id=1849830","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5266","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}