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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by paulmd on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:06AM (#22274031)
or load-bearing CGI and perl...

(perl's OK, CGI had a lot more server side injection risk from what I remember)

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by post_below on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:26AM (#22274107)
CGI as in "Common Gateway Interface" or CGI.pm?

If the former, the injection vulnerability would be in the script talking to the server/database via CGI, rather than in CGI itself.

If the latter I don't remember any major unpatched vulnerabilities in CGI.pm, but it was epically inefficient.

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