CVE-2024-13896

Description

The WP-GeSHi-Highlight — rock-solid syntax highlighting for 259 languages WordPress plugin through 1.4.3 processes user-supplied input as a regular expression via the wp_geshi_filter_replace_code() function, which could lead to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-02-20 | Published 2025-04-10 | Updated 2025-08-27 | Assigner WPScan

Problem types

CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Product status

Credits

Pierre Rudloff finder

WPScan coordinator

References

wpscan.com/...rability/b8b622ea-e090-45ad-8755-b050fc055231/ exploit

wpscan.com/...rability/b8b622ea-e090-45ad-8755-b050fc055231/ exploit vdb-entry technical-description

cve.org (CVE-2024-13896)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-13896)

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