CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.3. It affects WordPress. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2024-12579
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.3
EPSS
0.34%
WordPress
Original NVD 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.