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CVE-2024-12579: Minify HTML <= 2.1.10 - - Regular Expressions Denial of Service

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

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.

Affected products

• teckel Minify HTML: through 2.1.10

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

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