CVE-2024-13926

7.5 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.5) in connections-pro wp-syntax. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP-Syntax WordPress plugin through 1.2 does not properly handle input, allowing an attacker to create a post containing a large number of tags, thereby exploiting a catastrophic backtracking issue in the regular expression processing to cause a DoS.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-1333
Published: 2025-04-19
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

connections-pro:wp-syntax

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5f0092e-7cd5-412f-a8ea-7bd4a8bf86d2/

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