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Wordpress XMLRPC DoS

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Disclosed
2014-08-06
Created
2018-05-30

Description

Wordpress XMLRPC parsing is vulnerable to a XML based denial of service.
This vulnerability affects Wordpress 3.5 - 3.9.2 (3.8.4 and 3.7.4 are
also patched).

Authors

Nir Goldshlager
Christian Mehlmauer FireFart@gmail.com

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:


    msf > use auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_xmlrpc_dos
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_xmlrpc_dos) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_xmlrpc_dos) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_xmlrpc_dos) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_xmlrpc_dos) > run
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