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CVE-2024-13926
Published: Apr 19, 2025
Modified: Aug 27, 2025
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Unknown | WP-Syntax | affected 0 - <= 1.2 |
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5f0092e-7cd5-412f-a8ea-7bd4a8bf86d2/
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