CVE-2002-1853 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MyNewsGroups 0.4)
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MyNewsGroups 0.4 and 0.4.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the subject of a newsgroup post, which is not properly handled by (1) myarticles.php, (2) search.php, (3) stats.php, or (4) standard.lib.php.
| CVE ID | CVE-2002-1853 |
|---|---|
| Severity | MEDIUM |
| CVSS score | 4.3 |
| CVSS vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| CWE | NVD-CWE-Other |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2002-12-31 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MyNewsGroups 0.4 and 0.4.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the subject of a newsgroup post, which is not properly handled by (1) myarticles.php, (2) search.php, (3) stats.php, or (4) standard.lib.php. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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