Wiz
Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-12579

CVE-2024-12579: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Minify HTML plugin for WordPress contains a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2024-12579) affecting all versions up to and including 2.1.10. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on December 13, 2024, impacting the WordPress plugin's HTML minification functionality (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from the plugin's improper handling of user-supplied input as regular expressions, which can lead to catastrophic backtracking. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) (NVD, Wordfence).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to create comments that can trigger catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression processing, potentially leading to broken pages and degraded server performance (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

A fix has been implemented in the WordPress plugin repository, as evidenced by the changelog (WordPress Plugin). Users are advised to update their Minify HTML plugin to the latest version available.

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

Related WordPress vulnerabilities:

CVE ID

Severity

Score

Technologies

Component name

CISA KEV exploit

Has fix

Published date

CVE-2026-0726HIGH8.1
  • nexter-extension
NoYesJan 20, 2026
CVE-2026-0690MEDIUM6.4
  • flatpm-wp
NoYesJan 20, 2026
CVE-2026-0608MEDIUM6.4
  • head-meta-data
NoYesJan 20, 2026
CVE-2026-0548MEDIUM5.4
  • tutor
NoYesJan 20, 2026
CVE-2026-0554MEDIUM4.3
  • notificationx
NoYesJan 20, 2026

Free Vulnerability Assessment

Benchmark your Cloud Security Posture

Evaluate your cloud security practices across 9 security domains to benchmark your risk level and identify gaps in your defenses.

Request assessment

Additional Wiz resources

Cloud Vulnerability DB

Cloud Vulnerability DB

A community-led vulnerabilities database

Cloud Threat Landscape

Cloud Threat Landscape

A threat intelligence database

PEACH

PEACH

A tenant isolation framework

Get a personalized demo

Ready to see Wiz in action?

"Best User Experience I have ever seen, provides full visibility to cloud workloads."
David EstlickCISO
"Wiz provides a single pane of glass to see what is going on in our cloud environments."
Adam FletcherChief Security Officer
"We know that if Wiz identifies something as critical, it actually is."
Greg PoniatowskiHead of Threat and Vulnerability Management
Get a demo