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patchstackYuji TounaiPATCHSTACK:9844A349272E94AE6CC75F01DDF8CCD2
HistoryAug 15, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

WordPress <= 3.9.1 - Denial Of Service Attacks #2

2014-08-1500:00:00
Yuji Tounai
patchstack.com
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5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

The Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library permits entity declarations without considering recursion during entity expansion. In that way the attackers can cause a denial of service attacks via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

Related records:

http://db.threatpress.com/vulnerability/wordpress/wordpress-3-9-1-denial-of-service-attacks

Solution

           Update WordPress. 
CPENameOperatorVersion
wordpressle3.9.1

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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