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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,

medium Affects WordPress core. Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

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,

Package
WordPress core WordPress
Affected versions
<=3.9.1 or =3.0 or =3.0.1 or =3.0.2 or =3.0.3 or =3.0.4 or =3.0.5 or =3.0.6 or =3.1 or =3.1.1 or =3.1.2 or =3.1.3 or =3.1.4 or =3.2 or =3.2.1 or =3.3 or =3.3.1 or =3.3.2 or =3.3.3 or =3.4.0 or =3.4.1 or =3.4.2 or =3.5.0 or =3.5.1 or =3.6 or =3.6.1 or =3.7 or =3.7.1 or =3.8 or =3.8.1 or =3.9.0
Fixed in
no fix recorded
Severity
medium  CVSS 5.0
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 3% (87.8th percentile)
Published
2014-08-18
Source
nvd

References

CWE-399
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