CVE-2024-13926: WP-Syntax <= 1.2 - Author+ Potential ReDoS

Description

The WP-Syntax WordPress plugin through 1.2 does not properly handle input, allowing an attacker to create a post containing a large number of tags, thereby exploiting a catastrophic backtracking issue in the regular expression processing to cause a DoS.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-13926

Problem Types

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Vendor: Unknown

Product: WP-Syntax

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13926
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5f0092e-7cd5-412f-a8ea-7bd4a8bf86d2/

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