CVE-2024-13926 (GCVE-0-2024-13926)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-19 06:00 – Updated: 2025-08-27 12:00
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5f0092e-7cd5-41… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WP-Syntax Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.2 (semver)
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Credits
Pierre Rudloff WPScan
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