Minify HTML <= 2.1.10 - - Regular Expressions Denial of Service

5.3
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2024-12579
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published December 12, 2024
Last Updated December 13, 2024
Researcher Pierre Rudloff

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.

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Vulnerability Details for Minify HTML

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug minify-html-markup (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.1.11, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1.10
Patched Version
  • 2.1.11

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