markdown-it < 1.3.2 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2022-21670
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published January 10, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

The package markdown-it 1.3.2 is vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in cases where special patterns with length greater than 50 thousand characters are used. As this package is used in some WordPress plugins, this could result in the impacted plugins being vulnerable.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug maps-block-apple (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 1.0.3 - 1.0.3
Patched Version
  • 1.1.0
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