THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-5266
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2014-5266

Wordpress vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
24.4%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Wordpress
Affected product
Wordpress
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2014-08-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 24.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-5266

  • Confirm whether Wordpress Wordpress is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-5266.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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