CVE-2024-13926

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
UnknownWP-Syntax0 <= 1.2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References