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WordPress Plugin: insert-special-characters: CVE-2022-37599: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 11, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The package loader-utils before 1.4.2, from 2.0.0 and before 2.0.4 as well as versions from 3.0.0 but below 3.2.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the interpolateName function due to insecure usage of regular expressions. Some WordPress plugins and themes use this dependency, however, are not vulnerable to exploitation.

Solution

insert-special-characters-plugin-cve-2022-37599
Title
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