GeSHi, as used in the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension and MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2, allows…

Description

GeSHi, as used in the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension and MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• GLSA-201510-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150827 Re: CVE Request: MediaWiki 1.25.2, 1.24.3, 1.23.10 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150812 CVE Request: MediaWiki 1.25.2, 1.24.3, 1.23.10 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101608 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [MediaWiki-announce] 20150810 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.25.2, 1.24.3, 1.23.10 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• FEDORA-2015-13920 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 76361 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2015-6733](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2015-6733.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2015-6733)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 07:29 UTC.