terser (JS Package) < 5.14.2 - Denial of Service

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2022-25858
CVSS Low (3.7)
Publicly Published July 14, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

The package terser before 4.8.1, from 5.0.0 and before 5.14.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expressions. Some WordPress plugins and themes use this dependency, however, are not vulnerable to exploitation.

References

5 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug retro-winamp-block (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.0
Patched Version
  • 1.2.0
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sophi (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.0
Patched Version
  • 1.2.1
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug elasticpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.2.2
Patched Version
  • 4.3.0
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-podcasting (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.4
Patched Version
  • 1.2.4
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-local-avatars (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.0
Patched Version
  • 2.6.0
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