Better Messages <= 1.9.10.57 - Resource Exhaustion

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2022-33142
CVSS High (7.7)
Publicly Published August 22, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Dhakal Ananda
Description

The Better Messages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Resource Exhaustion in versions up to, and including, 1.9.10.57 due to not limiting the size of individual messages. This allows attackers, with subscriber-level access or higher, to exhaust resources on the target server potentially resulting in Denial of Service.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug bp-better-messages (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.9.10.57
Patched Version
  • 1.9.10.58
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