Vulnerability in Geshi

CVE-2008-5185

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 "<".

EPSS: 0.039 (89.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Geshi — versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References