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authorChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-03-26 16:35:55 (GMT)
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Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
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@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ servers written in Python. Servers can either be free standing, using
:class:`CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler`.
+.. warning::
+
+ The :mod:`xmlrpc.client` module is not secure against maliciously
+ constructed data. If you need to parse untrusted or unauthenticated data see
+ :ref:`xml-vulnerabilities`.
+
+
.. class:: SimpleXMLRPCServer(addr, requestHandler=SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler, logRequests=True, allow_none=False, encoding=None, bind_and_activate=True)
Create a new server instance. This class provides methods for registration of