CVE-2024-12579

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2024-12579

Assigner
Wordfence

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2024-12-13T04:23:26.470Z

Last Modified Date
2024-12-13T04:23:26.470Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-400	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html

References

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

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12579
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-12579

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-12-13 13:25:41				Added to TrackCVE