Second, laugh.
Seriously:
...Hahahaha. I love the PHP community, that nobody found this in all this time. Does nobody audit the libaries they use?
The flaw allows an attacker to compromise a web server, and is found in programs including PostNuke, WordPress, Drupal, Serendipity, phpAdsNew, phpWiki and phpMyFAQ, among others.
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The XML-RPC flaw was discovered by James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research. Bercegay found that the libraries are "vulnerable to a very high risk remote php code execution vulnerability that may allow for an attacker to compromise a vulnerable webserver ... By creating an XML file that uses single quotes to escape into the eval() call an attacker can easily execute php code on the target server."