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A remote\nattacker could provide a specially-crafted URL that, when visited could lead\nto local file system traversal or, potentially, ability to read content of\nany local file, accessible with the privileges of the user running the\nwebserver (CVE-2012-3251).\n\nA cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way 'langwiz' example\nscript of GeSHi, a generic syntax highlighter, performed sanitization of\ncertain HTTP GET / POST request variables (prior dumping their content). A\nremote attacker could provide a specially-crafted URL that, when visited\nwould lead to arbitrary HTML or web script execution (CVE-2012-3522).\n","status":"published","published":"2013-06-06T12:24:33Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:22:57.666947476Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:39.121227Z"},{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2012-3522","description":"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before 1.0.8.11 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.","status":"withdrawn","published":"2014-06-13T14:55:00Z","modified":"2025-07-16T08:10:34.990115Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:54:06.854805Z"}]}}