PT-2024-17663 · WordPress · Minify Html

Pierre Rudloff · Published 2024-12-13 · Updated 2024-12-13 · CVE-2024-12579

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Minify HTML plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.1.10

Description The issue is related to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability. This vulnerability arises from the plugin's processing of user-supplied input as a regular expression, allowing unauthenticated attackers to create comments that can cause catastrophic backtracking and break pages.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 2.1.10, consider disabling the plugin until a patch is available to prevent exploitation of the ReDoS vulnerability. As a temporary workaround, restrict the ability for unauthenticated users to create comments to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-12579

Affected Products

Minify Html

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12579 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3203890/minify-html-markup · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/80334e81-c33d-464c-9409-f49c34681890?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/12824 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1867505837410856964 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1867537624400838858 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/104134 · Telegram Post