CVE-2002-0242

Internet Explorer vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

11.4%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script via an Extended HTML Form, whose output from the remote server is not properly cleansed.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Internet Explorer

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2002-05-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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