Vulnerabilites related to Unknown - WP-Syntax
CVE-2024-13926 (GCVE-0-2024-13926)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-19 06:00
Modified
2025-08-27 12:00
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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
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https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5f0092e-7cd5-412f-a8ea-7bd4a8bf86d2/ | exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description |
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