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CVE-2002-0269
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 11.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2002-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Description
Internet Explorer 5.x and 6 interprets an object as an HTML document even when its MIME Content-Type is text/plain, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script in documents that the user does not expect, possibly through web applications that use a text/plain type to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.0, 5.0.1-sp1, 5.0.1-sp2, 5.01, 5.5, 5.5-sp1 (+2)
References
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