CVE-2024-12579

Dec. 13, 2024, 5:15 a.m.

5.3
Medium

Description

The Minify HTML plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.10. This is due to processing user-supplied input as a regular expression. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create comments that can cause catastrophic backtracking and break pages.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
Minify HTML plugin for WordPress
  • ['up to 2.1.10']

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3203890/minify-html-markup
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/80334e81-c33d-464c-9409-f49c34681890?source=cve

Tags

CWE-400
security@wordfence.com
2024-12-13
CVE-2024-12579

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: NONE

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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Timeline

Published: Dec. 13, 2024, 5:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Dec. 13, 2024, 5:15 a.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

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