vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: minify-html-markup: CVE-2024-12579: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Dec 12, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | May 4, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 12, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026
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.
Solution
minify-html-markup-plugin-cve-2024-12579
References
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12579
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/80334e81-c33d-464c-9409-f49c34681890?source=api-prod
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-50971
- CVE-2024-12579
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-12579
- CWE-400
- EUVD-EUVD-2024-50971
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