VulnerabilityModified

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 "<".

EXPLOIT ✓MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 3.89%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 3.9%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.

Description

CVSS 2.0: 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS: 3.89% probability · 90th percentile
Public exploits: 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 20 November 2008
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-399
Affected: geshi/geshi
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 3.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-ID	Title	Type	Published	Verified
EDB-32596 source ↗	GeSHi 1.0.x - XML Parsing Remote Denial of Servicemultiple · Christian Hoffmann	dos	20 November 2008	yes

References

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