
Vulnerabilities
Regular Expression Denial of Service Prevention Checklist
Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions turns pattern matching into an exponential resource drain that exposes services to denial of service attacks.
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Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions turns pattern matching into an exponential resource drain that exposes services to denial of service attacks.

Theme code executes with server privileges, meaning a single insecure template file can grant attackers full control over the database and file system.