cve/2008/CVE-2008-5185.md

### [CVE-2008-5185](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5185)
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### 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 "<".

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/4

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.