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CVE-2024-13926: WP-Syntax <= 1.2 - Author+ Potential ReDoS
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2025-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-1333
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.
Affected products
- WP-Syntax: through 1.2
References
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