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WordPress Plugin: simple-local-avatars: CVE-2022-25881: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 23, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The package http-cache-semantics is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in versions before 4.1.1 via the cache-control HTTP header. WordPress plugins and themes may be using this package, however, they may not be vulnerable to exploitation.

Solution

simple-local-avatars-plugin-cve-2022-25881
Title
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