CVE-2024-13926

WP-Syntax <= 1.2 - Author+ Potential ReDoS

High · published April 19, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
42.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00502 · 42.1th percentile
Published
2025-04-19T06:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 APR 06:00Z
    WP-Syntax <= 1.2 - Author+ Potential ReDoS
    cvelistv5