CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-13926
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-04-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
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.
Affected configurations
• connections-pro wp-syntax (<= 1.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5f0092e-7cd5-412f-a8ea-7bd4a8bf86d2/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory