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CVE-2012-3522 (GCVE-0-2012-3522)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-06-13 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in contrib/langwiz.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8.11 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://sourceforge.net/p/geshi/code/2508/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Date Public
2012-06-23 00:00
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