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CVE-2002-0481

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

An interaction between Windows Media Player (WMP) and Outlook 2002 allows remote attackers to bypass Outlook security settings and execute Javascript via an IFRAME in an HTML email message that references .WMS (Windows Media Skin) or other WMP media files, whose onload handlers execute the player.LaunchURL() Javascript function.

Affected products

• Microsoft Outlook: 2002

References

• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/263429
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8604.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4340
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/263429
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8604.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4340

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