vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: simple-local-avatars: CVE-2022-25858: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 14, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

The package terser before 4.8.1, from 5.0.0 and before 5.14.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expressions. Some WordPress plugins and themes use this dependency, however, are not vulnerable to exploitation.

Solution

simple-local-avatars-plugin-cve-2022-25858
Title
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