CVE-2024-12579 Minify HTML <= 2.1.10 - - Regular Expressions Denial of Service
Unauthenticated attackers can cause denial of service via catastrophic backtracking in the Minify HTML WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-12579?
CVE-2024-12579 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in teckel Minify HTML, published on 13 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12579?
How do I fix CVE-2024-12579?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12579 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-12579 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12579 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-75pp-9v48-ff5j.