Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Dec 13, 2024· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2024-12579

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.

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3203890/minify-html-markupnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/80334e81-c33d-464c-9409-f49c34681890nvd

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