PoC Index

CVE-2024-13926

HIGH 7.5EPSS 0.5%

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.

CVSS v3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 39th percentile
Published
2025-04-19
Updated
2025-08-27

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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