CVE-2024-13896 (GCVE-0-2024-13896)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-10 06:00 – Updated: 2025-08-27 12:00
VLAI?
Title
WP-GeSHi-Highlight <= 1.4.3 - Author+ ReDoS
Summary
The WP-GeSHi-Highlight — rock-solid syntax highlighting for 259 languages WordPress plugin through 1.4.3 processes user-supplied input as a regular expression via the wp_geshi_filter_replace_code() function, which could lead to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b8b622ea-e090-45… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WP-GeSHi-Highlight — rock-solid syntax highlighting for 259 languages Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.4.3 (semver)
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Credits
Pierre Rudloff WPScan
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