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WP-Syntax, CVE-2024-13926

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-13926

Application

WP-Syntax

Published on
Apr 19, 2025
Research 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 versions
Min -, max 1.2.
Status
vulnerable