FKIE_CVE-2024-13926

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-04-19 06:15 - Updated: 2025-05-28 15:50
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5f0092e-7cd5-412f-a8ea-7bd4a8bf86d2/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
connections-pro wp-syntax *
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  "id": "CVE-2024-13926",
  "lastModified": "2025-05-28T15:50:23.510",
  "metrics": {
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          "attackComplexity": "LOW",
          "attackVector": "NETWORK",
          "availabilityImpact": "HIGH",
          "baseScore": 7.5,
          "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
          "scope": "UNCHANGED",
          "userInteraction": "NONE",
          "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
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