Description
The Really Simple Security WordPress plugin before 9.8.3 does not validate a client-supplied address value before using it as a storage key in one of its own options, allowing unauthenticated attackers to grow that option without bound and to slow the site's handling of missing pages.
References1
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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5.3
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 37 · as of 8 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-400
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