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CVE-2008-5185

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-11-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "<".

Affected Platforms

Geshi Geshi

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References